Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Resource Economics

CAPRI

Property Rights, Collective Action and Poverty Reduction
Start: 09/2004
End: 10/2007

The Project aims to contribute to poverty reduction by identifying effective policies and practices that enhance the ways that collective action and property rights are used to build secure assets and income streams for and by the poor. The project is intended to provide policymakers, NGOs, and community groups with knowledge of the factors that strengthen rights of the poor to land and water resources and lead to more effective collective action by the poor. In Ethiopia, the project tried to identify effective policies and practices for rural communities that face multiple threats (natural disasters, ethnic conflict, and economic transition) in order to reduce poverty and secure sustainable rural livelihoods based on effective collective action and secure property rights. The main purpose of the project is to sensitize policy-makers, NGOs, and communities about the links between collective action, property rights, and the local-level institutions in mediating effective collective action by households and communities, particularly in crisis situations, and to improve policies for poverty reduction and local institution building in Ethiopia. This study combines quantitative and qualitative approaches with analytic narratives to allow a thorough analytical assessment of the factors that influence collective action, determine effective property rights, and provide an understanding of 'real life games' around local-level institutions, the actors involved, and their strategies.

Researchers: Prof. Dr. Benedikt Korf, Dr. Martina Padmanabhan, Dr. Fekadu Beyene, Dr. Bekele Hundie, Juliana Helmerich

Project Partner: Prof. Dr. Ayalneh Bogale, Alemaya University, Ethiopia

Lead Overall Project: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Hagedorn

Lead HU Sub-project: Prof. Dr. Benedikt Korf, Dr. Martina Padmanabhan

Funding: Sub-project of IFPRI and funds were received by IFPRI from Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)


Project Website:
CAPRi (CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights)
CAPRi Workshop 2006

Publications and Presentations:

Articles and discussion papers

Bekele Hundie 2008.Property rights changes among Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia: the role of the state, Vol 47. (2008), No. 2

Fekadu Beyene 2008. Institutions, determinants and effects of collective action among (agro)pastoralists of eastern Ethiopia, Vol 47. (2008), No. 2

Jemal, H., Bogale, A. and Hagedorn, K. (2008). Welfare loss for pastoralists due to wildlife protection areas: the case of Awash National Park, Ethiopia. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 47(3): 217- 238.

Martina Padmanabhan 2008. Collective action and property rights in Ethiopia/ Part I: Institutional change and pastoralism, Vol 47. (2008), No. 3.

Martina Padmanabhan 2008. Collective action and property rights in Ethiopia Part 2: Rural development and natural resource management, Vol 47. (2008), No. 3

Martina A. Padmanabhan 2008. Pastoral women as strategic and tactical agents in conflicts: negotiating access to resources and gender relations in Afar, Ethiopia, Vol 47. (2008), No. 3

Hundie Bekele; Padmanabhan, Martina. 2008. The transformation of the Afar commons in Ethiopia : State coercion, iversification and property rights change among pastoralists. (CAPRi working paper 87) Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 37 pages. [Language: EN] Order code: CAPRiWP87

Beyene, Fekadu; Korf, Benedikt. 2008. Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property rights and resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia. (CAPRi working paper 88) Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 26 pages. [Language: EN] Order code: CAPRiWP88

Crewett, Wibke; Bogale, Ayalneh; Korf, Benedikt. 2008. Land tenure in Ethiopia: Continuity and change, shifting rulers, and the quest for state control. (CAPRi working paper 91) Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 30 pages. [Language: EN] Order code: CAPRiWP91

Conference Papers:

Fekadu Beyene, Collective action and informal institutions: The case of agropastoralists of Eastern Ethiopia, Paper presented at the Policy Research Conference on Pastoralism and Poverty Reduction in East Africa held in Nairobi, June 2006.

Fekadu Beyene. Informal institutions and access to grazing resources: Practices and challenges among pastoralists of Eastern Ethiopia. Paper presented at the Policy Research Conference on Pastoralism and Poverty Reduction in East Africa held in Nairobi, June 2006 and the IASCP Biannual Conference in Bali, June 2006.