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Contents
The Benishangul Aboriginal Community, Economic Profile .......................................................... 5
Institutions and Aboriginal Community ........................................................................................... 6
Common Resources and Institutions ................................................................................................... 8
A Development Issue: Benishangul Aboriginal Prospects............................................................. 10
Social Capital Development as a Base for Economic Developments ............................................ 13
Development of Mineral Resources ................................................................................................. 15
Environmental Issues........................................................................................................................ 17
Rural Leasehold, Land Strategy and Future Benefits ................................................................... 19
Land Tenure and Land Management ............................................................................................. 20
Policy for Agriculture as the Engine of Development.................................................................... 23
Poverty Cases in Developing Country ............................................................................................. 25
Adopting Sustainable Land Management: Alleviating Poverty ................................................... 27
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................... 30
Policy Recommendation ................................................................................................................... 33
References .................................................................................................................................................. 34
Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude and great thanks to my creator ALLAH, by his
power I have come to start and complete my manuscript, the next gratitude goes to
my beloved wife Gizema Ahmad for her unlimited home care, she has given me
during my manuscript task. Those individuals who made this manuscript possible.
List of Acronyms’ and abbreviations
CR
common Resource
CA
Conserve Agriculture
FDRE
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
NGOs
Non-Governmental Organizations
SLM
Sustainable Land Managements
UNCCD
United Nations Convention to Combat Dissertation
USA
United State of America
USD
United State for Development
Introduction
I felt dissatisfaction that in any session at each yearly conference her in Assosa
College, any investigate program at the territorial level or policy-related
occasions where the speakers put forward their thoughts around the major inquire
about and approach issues to be handled by the callings, there was no specify of
the issues confronted by Native communities in Benishangul. There's no question
that Native communities and most Natives are altogether impeded with regard to
most other Benishangul in particular and Ethiopia communities – the impediment
that I would contend is essentially due to need of financial improvement. I accept
that the agrarian and asset financial matters calling can make a significant
commitment to the advancement of their circumstances through the exhortation,
it can give financial advancement. Our inquire about and viable encounter in
ranges such as agrarian approach and cultivate administration, characteristic
asset administration, and regulation advancement, and the incrGiven the
enormity of the situation, there has been surprisingly little work by the wider
economics profession on issues related to Aboriginal disadvantage in Ethiopia. I
suspect that this reluctance has stemmed in part from the fact that it is a
politically sensitive area and also one that is subject to academic jealousy.
However, if this is the case, such sensitivities should be ignored in the interests
of the Aboriginal peoples, especially if, as I believe, economists, and agricultural
and resource economists, in particular, have so much to offer.
Also, I can argue that development cannot begin without any alarming events,
that
event
it
might
be
negative
or
positive.
The question of compensation of Farmer’s, for their contribution to the goals of
maintenance of biodiversity, and the given their control over such vast areas of
land, consideration has to be given to the involvement of Aboriginal communities
in
the
management
of
environmental
issues
Given the extensive areas of land that Aboriginal groups have gained control
over in one form or another in recent years, there are very important questi ons
about how this land will be managed, whether for agricultural or other activities.
Agricultural and farm management economists can contribute a great deal
through advice on how best to manage these lands. Most times, these lands are
highly susceptible to environmental problems and natural resource economists
can help with advice on that topic. There is a high probability that they will
discover further mineral resources on Aboriginal land, which has implications
for
the
management
of
the
resource
rents
accruing
from
mining
projects.(Agterberg&Bonham-Carter,2005).
Resource economists can advise on the design of mining contracts, mineral
taxation policy, and management of resource revenues such as through trust
funds. The form of land tenure under which we hold most of this land is
customary ownership or common property.(Wily, 2011). In recent years, we have
learned a great deal about the management of common property resources, and
when collective action may be the best way to manage externalities. Land tenure
has developed in all societies, and it will be no different in Ethiopia, the tenure
over considerable areas of land has changed from crown land, individual
leasehold, and individual freehold to common property under Aboriginal
ownership.(Greller, 2015). However, common property tenure and management
has not proved to be the best form of management for growth in productivity.
Therefore, as in other countries, over time there will be pressure for change to
some form of individual land title. This kind of change is a basic form of
institutional change. Agricultural and resource economists have largely led the
way in Ethiopia in analyzing how the new institutional economics can assist in
creating a better basis for economic development in lower-income countries, and
this
knowledge
can
be
very
usefully
applied
in
Ethiopia.
The developing country faces many challenges in order to make an improvement
in its development of the economy. Many developing countries have tons of
population but their per capita income is low. A low level of national income
may
affect
the
process
of
the
development
of
the
country
The political and domination strategies of changes needed for pro-poor growth
strategies. One of the important lessons cultured is that political change cannot
be calculated and forced from the outside. Creating the proper amalgam of
norms, values, and rules to reduce uncertainty and transaction costs is a critical
factor in accelerated growth and development. The creation of such social values
and norms is called social development or social capital accumulation(Krause,
Handfield, & Tyler, 2007).
The Benishangul Aboriginal Community, Economic Profile
Rain fed subsistence agriculture and mining is the livelihood fore community,
shifting field cultivation and use of hoe based farming. Only 44.5% of the farmers
use animal power for traction. Unlike other part of country, rainfall is not a major
limiting factor for agriculture production in the community, except very few
marginal areas bordering the Sudan (BG, BoFED, 2008). Sorghum and maize are
the adopted crop by the community, the average productivity of maize and sorghum
12 & 9 quintals per hectare, respectively, where the community are located has a
high potential for growing fruit crops and coffee. Mango is one of the dominants and
important grown.
Additionally, the Benishangul Aboriginal community is endowed with potential
natural resources that can be tapped for the well-being of the people. The region has
large cultivable land and rich water resource potentials. There are many perennial
rivers such as Abay (Blue Nile), Dabus, Beles, Dedessa and others that can be used
for large, medium and small scale irrigation developments. It is estimated that there
is about 1 million hectare of potentially irrigable land in the region. Rivers like Gilgel
Beles and Hoha can be used for hydroelectric power generation. Various types of
minerals are found in many places. The major ones include: Gold, Marble,
Limestone, Cobalt, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Tantalum, Sulphite and Nedium. About
55% of the total land area of the region is covered with different vegetation and
forests. Bamboo, incense and gum trees are the major forest types. Forests are
important sources of construction material, fuel wood and food, particularly for the
indigenous communities. Beekeeping and fishery are also very promising potentials
that could play vital roles in supporting food security in the region.
Institutions and Aboriginal Community
In recent years, there has been a rise in interest in the study of institutions in
economics. This is because of the inadequacy of the neoclassical theory in dealing
with a set of issues like the uneven performance of economies in space and time, the
persistence of inefficient institutions, the role of ideology in the choice determination
of individuals, and the rationale and effect of the rule observing behavior, etc
(Whitehead & Russell, 1997). These inadequacies were attributed to both conceptual
and methodological frameworks utilized in the neoclassical theory. Further, the
neoclassical economics does not deal with the incentives and behavior of political
actors, or the influence of the political process on target for growth, stability, and
pollution abatement regulation in agriculture or the division of public investment
among sectors and enterprises (Eggertsson, 1997). Neoclassical economics
completely ignores the “power” dimension in policy-making (Franke, Schmid,
Osborn, & Weber, 1978). The framework is also being criticized for its isolated
nature in that it does not encompass the reality and efficacy of transaction costs
(Hart, Tirole, Carlton, & Williamson, 1990). This is due to a greater focus on a few
key variables like price, quantity, etc. Further, the framework offered no scope to
integrate politics into economics to capture the real-time phenomenon of the
economic outcome as influenced by political institutions. Institutions are taken for
granted for observing the social rules, conventions, and other elements of the
structural framework of social interaction in mainstream economics. They are often
pushed so much into the background that many of their central propositions are
sometimes stated with a false notion of institutional neutrality(Bardhan, 1989).
These inadequacies led economists to look for an alternative framework for
analyzing economic phenomena with explicitly studying the interaction of
institutions with these phenomena.
So having the above institutional facts, Aboriginals communities, have their own
indigenous or cultural guideline, for their life cycle and strong informal institutions
which have a drive them up to the modern institutions. However, to compete with a
new one historical things should be taken into the account. Because it can play a
great role in setting the genuine plate form for the new economic or development
institutions. Nevertheless, the fact and figure which we are observing from the recent
living standards of the Aboriginals community are, the potential of natural resources
is hugely available however it lacks compatible institutions to come up with the
potential to actual. Someone can observe many institutions are newly introduced;
unfortunately, the institutions are imported that totally are not much with the reality
of aboriginals in Benishangul. Surely, I believe that only researches are required not
importing institutions and the trustfulness in most cases of least developing like the
Aboriginal community in Benishangul, they are laky of having a huge potential of
resources while being economically disadvantageous and the guidance institutions
are imported, Daly. Of course, it may require robust economic data to say that until
the beginning of the FDRE government Aboriginals community have had used
natural resources, so many livestock’s, mineral, and agricultural production
efficiently, however, the day forward things come to changes. I can argue because
of the institutional dilemma of modern and the previously informal one and I would
like to make it open for interesting research, truly, my Argument can be supported
by the Path dependency theory. This theory insists that it's of decisive importance to
explicitly model the method from which an establishment emerges. In other
words, the idea says that ‘history’ matters within the emergence of an establishment.
Path dependency theory is a cumulative process where random events in the opening
phase of the process determine the outcome in the long-term. It is therefore with
good reason that these processes are termed ‘historical’ (Gerbing & Anderson,
1988).
Common Resources and Institutions
Common assets of arrive, water, timberland, Mining, natural life, and farming
constitute an imperative component of community resources in Benishangul, and
they essentially contribute to the business of individuals, in spite of their fast
consumption and decay in physical efficiency. All-natural assets, counting CRs, are
amendable to administration beneath different property districts, viz. state, private
and collective community, etc. Indeed a specific asset may be held beneath more
than one property administrations or can be overseen beneath a distributed/shared
administration framework (Marothia,2003).
There is nothing inherent during a resource itself to work out the character and
sort of the ownership , but it's determined by social and institutional arrangements
evolved and enforced by the community to protect the resource ((Bromley, 1992);(
Jodha, 2005); and Martha 1993 &2002). Institutional arrangements play an
important role in the management of natural resources, in general, and CRs in
particular, under any property right regime.
In the context of CRs, institutions are defined as “collective action in control,
liberation, and expansion of individual action”(Commons, 2001). Thus, institutions
express the value system of society and enforce it in the form of working rules. In
other words, institutions are ‘working rules’ to order relationship among individuals
within a society, and structure incentives in human exchange, whether social,
economic, or political(Milgrom, North, & Weingast*, 1990); Weimer 1995;
Williamson 1994; and Dasgupta and Maler 1994). The property rights or institutions
are part of the `cultural capital’ by which resource user communities convert the
`natural capital’ (resources and ecological services) into `human-made capital’ or
inputs of production. The cultural capital comprising social and institutional capital
((Coleman, 1988); and Ostrom 1992) indicates how people in any society view the
utilization of natural resources and associated values and ethics, including customs,
norms, religion, and culturally transmitted knowledge ((Berkes, Colding, & Folke,
2000)).
The standards of working rules are basic to shaping social connections, choice of
elective approaches, and administration in overseeing characteristic assets in
common, and CRs in specific. I accept that Organization courses of action play an
critical part within the administration of natural assets particularly within the case of
common assets. To know the impact of the Need of organization courses of action
within the Aboriginals community in Benishangul, would not be as it were with
observational information, the awful and backward saving propensity and the need
of legitimate utilization of non-renewable assets within the Native community in
Benishangul can be taken as popular pieces of prove. I contend that The Aboriginal
community does not think that common assets can completely be extricated or
severely exhausted particularly within the case of mining and agrarian lands (Hanna,
Folke, & Mäler, 1995).
So, as I mentioned above, the institution which comes out from the mixture of two
namely historically or informal institutions, and newly emerged institutions which
supported by technologies timely needed. Briefly, the government should intervene
with the strong institution, which proves them that future generation has right to
calm on the current extraction and the future generation is nothing but their
offspring, of course, I can argue that the lack of suitable institution even I can tack
it as one the symbol of being economically disadvantageous, that means coming out
with inclusive and making them economically active can tackle the above-mentioned
resources related problem.
A Development Issue: Benishangul Aboriginal Prospects
As I said, the basic premise of this paper is that the terrible state of Aboriginal
community living standards, particularly in rural areas (as shows up in social
indicators such as life expectancy, infant and maternal mortality, and the incidence
of disease), is primarily the result of a lack of economic development in these
communities. Further, I believe that the best means of substantially improving their
welfare will be through economic development in their communities. This is a
contested premise. ‘Developmentalism’ is almost used as a term of abuse in some
social science quarters in Ethiopia in discussions about policies relating to
Aborigines. Nevertheless, the past emphasis on welfare policies has not led to any
significant improvement in their well-being –Some may wish to argue that different
welfare policies would lead to substantially better. I disagree. To some extent, rural
Aboriginal communities have a choice as to whether they wish to undertake
economic development; those in urban areas do not. However, the choice appears
highly constrained by the freedom of people to leave rural communities, the
availability of information about what is happening in the wider world, and the
continuous comparisons of their welfare with that of the rest of Benishangul and
other societies.
Globally, the evidence is that substantial improvement in the welfare of poor
societies only occurs through, initially, provision of clean water and sanitation and
control of pests and diseases, and later, through greater access to income-earning
assets such as education and land, and opportunities to access other markets.
Nevertheless, these are direct and more highly visible relationships. The important
question is how to set these processes in place and sustain them? It is of interest why
the approach to improving the welfare of rural Aboriginal communities in
Benishangul has been so different from that adopted in what is termed the developing
countries? As with other societies in Ethiopia, Native Africans Indians in the USA,
the Aboriginal population in Benishangul regional state makes up a high percentage
of the total population. For this reason, there is a tendency towards adopting the
seemingly ‘easy’ solution to their problems through income redistribution measures,
but which creates difficult-to-overcome problems of welfare dependency, as so well
described by Noel Pearson. This tendency is underpinned in Ethiopia by the
predominance of a Military regime of derg socialism and the recent governments of
FDRE that gives preference to government-based solutions over solutions relying
on individual effort and enterprise.
I would argue, however, that even these other factors are not sufficient for economic
development to take place. Over the past 50 years, the theoretical understanding of
the economic growth process and the implementation of economic development
strategies have undergone huge changes(Pollard et al., 2002). Following growth
theorists such(Harrod, 1939), (Domar, 1946) and Solow (1956), development
assistance for many years (and still, in some agencies) was based on the notion that
the lack of financial and physical capital was the main reason for countries being
poor. Hence, the multilateral lending agencies and aid agencies in high-income
countries were set up to transfer savings from rich to poor countries. Later,
following(Becker, Spencer, & Swartwood, 1964), economic growth theory and
developmental practice focused also on health and education to build human capital.
By the early 1980s, the realization that so many of the projects that they had funded
had failed saw the multilateral agencies adopt so-called Structural Adjustment
Programs, based on the premise that the policy environment in the developing
countries was not conducive to project success. However, Structural Adjustment
Programs have not led to much better growth performance(Burnside & Dollar,
1997). In the 1990s, following North (1990), and more recently (Olson, 1996)
and(De Soto, 1989), the focus of developmental assistance has shifted – at least in
some quarters – to the creation of institutional frameworks in which physical and
human capital and innovativeness will flourish.
Nevertheless, changing and creating basic economic and social institutions within a
society is very difficult. Both North and Olson were pessimistic about the likelihood
of such change, implying, as it does, change in the political power balance within
the society. The political status quo is what it is for good reason, and changing it to
provide enhanced possibilities for the poor to participate in economic activities is
threatening to the ruling interests. Looked at from this angle, promoting economic
development and reducing widespread poverty is a very complex and difficult
process. The transfer of capital to poor countries or regions and its transformation
into roads and dams or schools and medical centers is, by comparison, a simple task.
Nevertheless, without institutional changes in areas such as constitutions (to provide
equal opportunity), judiciaries (to ensure impartial treatment), social capital (to
generate trust throughout the community), rights to education (to provide equal
access for the disadvantaged), or land titles (to provide security for investors), the
provision of roads, schools, and hospitals is likely to have little impact.
Agricultural and resource economists have embraced the New Institutional
Economics more enthusiastically than the general economics profession in the LeastDeveloping region. This may be because they are doing more work in developing
countries where they are forced to think more deeply about the process of economic
development. For these reasons, agricultural and resource economists are in a
position to make a contribution to the kinds of institutional developments that I see
as necessary in Benishangul for economic development in Aboriginal communities.
Social Capital Development as a Base for Economic
Developments
The capitalist paradigm which suggests a non-activist and non-interventionist
government, a door watchdog government as conducive to economic growth bases
such conclusions on two pillars. One pillar has got to do with the assertion that
competitive markets are both pervasive and Pareto efficient. The second pillar has
got to do with the capitalist economics supported the idea of socially wasteful
exploiters activities and therefore the rational choice theory of solely self-interest
maximizing individuals. Government created product doesn't necessarily need to be
socially wasteful. It becomes wasteful as long as exclusively self-interest
maximizing individuals use it to make wealth at the expense of society and as long
as the state is incapable of improving on the market- i.e. there are no market failures.
The theory of exclusively self-interest maximizing individuals doesn't stand up .
History, common everyday observation, and theoretical analysis supported the
2 suggest that an economy supported complex economic interaction like a free
enterprise requires an amalgam of self-interested and non-self-interesting behavior:
an amalgam of social and individual norms that maximize survival potential within
an appropriate social context. In the absence of such norms, the govt , if it can exist
as a coherent corporate entity for any period, becomes predatory. A properly
behaved a door watchdog government populated by exclusively interest maximizing
individuals is thus a practical and theoretical impossibility. Only individuals with an
amalgam of self-interested and non-self-interested behavior can create a door
watchdog government, and such people are equally capable of creating a government
that intervenes in the economy in the larger interest of society. Creating the proper
amalgam of norms, values, and rules to reduce uncertainty and transaction costs is a
critical factor in accelerated growth and development. The creation of such social
values and norms is called social development or social capital accumulation
(Krause,
Handfield,
&
Tyler,
2007).
I can privilege that, Social development is thus not only an essential element of
development but also a critical instrument of accelerated economic growth. The
accumulation
of social capital, which plays
such
a critical
role in
accelerating economic process , may be a public good, which has increasing returns
to scale. It is, hence, undersupplied by the market and is subject to vicious and
righteous cycles. It is created by group action by civic engagement within
the context of horizontal and dense networks, inculcated, and sustained through
modeling, socialization, and sanctions. The government plays a critical role in social
capital accumulation through undermining patronage networks and promotion of
fairness and equity, through the promotion of participation and democracy, and
thru appropriate sanctions and efforts at socialization. Even though to tackle the bad
leadership strong informal institutions and civic engagement may be a need among
the poor community or the community who claim developments.
Development of Mineral Resources
As owners of around 65 percent of Benishangul land, Aboriginal groups are already
owners of the land from which significant mineral resources are being exploited.
The chances are high that further mineral discoveries will be made on their land. The
development of these resources can make an important contribution to their welfare,
but as seen in so many resource-rich developing countries, it is difficult to achieve
improved welfare for the majority of the population from such developments. Of
course, there is a growing Aboriginal recognition that the payment of royalties to
incorporated bodies in areas affected by mining can result in excessive regional
politicking for these sums of money, with a concomitant lack of attention to longerterm economic opportunities and an inability to accumulate venture capital for
investment.
(Traditional gold digging: Benishangul Community)
Avoiding such ‘rent-seeking’ behavior and ensuring that mineral discoveries make
the best possible contribution to the welfare of Aboriginal communities involves
negotiating effective contracts with mining companies and the effective
management of the share of mining revenues accruing to the communities. The
mining contracts negotiated and the relationships between mining companies and
the owners of the lands being mined have improved considerably over the past 30
years, especially in developing countries. However, contract disputes are still a
frequent occurrence in Ethiopia and elsewhere. As Duncan and Duncan (1997) have
shown with respect to mining in Papua New Guinea, contract disputes between
customary landowners and mining companies may arise because of asymmetry of
information between developers and the mining companies, the time inconsistency
of contracts, and the incompleteness of contracts.
These problems may arise in respect of the size of the mineral reserves, the mineral
prices to be expected over the life of the project, and the project’s likely
environmental impacts. Duncan and Duncan suggested that better design of
contracts could ameliorate these problems and reduce the likelihood of contract
disputes that reduce investor confidence and the economic benefits from such
developments. The insecurity of the contract leads to reduced exploration and
development and to short-run exploitation of resources through reduced fixed
investment and increased fly-in/fly-out activity and ‘high-grading’ of ore bodies. It
appears that contract theory has much to offer with respect to the design of better
mining contracts and better outcomes for the people directly involved – as well as
those indirectly involved. Indirect effects which need to be addressed are the
environmental impacts outside the mining lease area, and the distribution of benefits
from mining projects to Aboriginal groups that no longer have a direct association
with the land. The sustainability of regional economies following mine closures is
an issue that has not yet been confronted but which also needs to be thought about.
The institutional environment in which contract negotiations take place also needs
to be considered.
has pointed out, with respect to mining contract negotiations in Papua New Guinea,
how the order in which agreements between landowners, the mining companies, and
the government are agreed affects the balance of power between the different parties.
He argues that in Papua New Guinea the obligation for a landowner compensation
agreement to be in place before the developer can begin any work approved by the
government, along with problems in the approval process itself, undermines the
State’s ownership right to the resource and also undermines its ability to enforce this
right. As with the management of government revenues from mining projects in
developing countries, the management and distribution of the landowner benefits
from mining projects have proven problematic the world over. Various forms of trust
funds have been established to handle these funds.
Environmental Issues
Sustainability of land management has also been raised by Altman (2002). He argues
that the wider social benefits that Farmer is generating (and will generate in the
future) through their management of the considerable land area now under their
control are not being recognized. Altman also makes the point that the popular
expectations for Farmer advancement from their gaining control over land (which is
often ‘remote, commercially marginal and, at times, ecologically degraded’) are
generally far too high. Introduced land uses have been hugely subsidized over the
years in other developing countries others than Ethiopia, often with the result being
the destruction of bio-diversity and adoption of environmentally unsustainable and
unprofitable practices. It seems reasonable, therefore, for society to recognize the
contributions that Farmer is making to Ethiopia national and international
obligations. If this social benefit is recognized, economists can contribute to the
valuation of the externalities that could be generated by sustainable management of
the extensive land now under Benishangul Aboriginal control. As always, a key issue
will be the design of a payment mechanism that cannot easily be corrupted and that
does not lead to welfare dependency.
Altman (2002) is also critical of the lack of contribution of environmental agencies
to the effort being made to the wider good through Farmer land management. The
lack of appreciation of national and state agencies of the positive contributions by
Farmer to land management, the inappropriateness of the land management
programs developed by these agencies for farmland, and the ineffectiveness of
communication with them, are concerns raised widely by social scientists. I privilege
that, Benishangul Aboriginals are forced to rely on mainstream programs, that have
emphasized upcoming technologies, land and environmental cultures which do not
suitable for their existing land and indigenous knowledge, which lead them to only
subsistence production rather than commercial production; that communication of
information about these programs is culturally inadequate, taking little account of
their limited literacy and numeracy skills and technological understanding; and that
government agencies take little account of the lack of capital and know-how of
financial aspects of land management of Aboriginal peoples (e.g., Young et al. 1991;
Orchard et al. 2001).
The question of compensation of Farmer’s, for their contribution to the goals of
maintenance of biodiversity, and the given their control over such vast areas of land,
consideration has to be given to the involvement of Aboriginal communities in the
management of environmental issues. Integrated water management, for instance,
involving as it does the management of private, public, and common property issues
and use of both market-based and regulatory instruments, needs to involve a mix of
federal, state, regional, and community-level responsibilities. The role of community
groups in this integrated activity has not been well developed. In building on the
ideas of Marshall (2001) and Musgrave (2002) for better involvement of regional
and local communities, thought should be given to the integration of Aboriginal
communities and their collective action role.
Rural Leasehold, Land Strategy and Future Benefits
This proposed strategy is a framework for managing and using rural leasehold land
sustainably by protecting its environmental, social, and economic values. It gives
priority to managing rural leasehold land in a way that recognizes economic
pressures, environmental necessities, and the declining condition of the natural
resource and the hazard of increasing climatic variability. The approach of the
strategy is long term and linked to natural resource management outcomes. It builds
on and, while it does not rely on any substantial changes, it does provide a major
shift from the current rigid approach to land administration, to a performance-based
and outcomes-focused approach. Many landholders already use property level
planning because it is good practice and profitable to do so. The leasehold strategy
takes a similar systematic approach to property management. A land management
agreement which includes the resource and land attribute information integral to
property planning systems is proposed to be a minimum requirement for all new long
term agricultural leases. It will describe the natural resource attributes of the land,
identify inherent environmental and cultural values, establish their condition, and
identify all significant natural resource management issues. It also will set out the
agreed natural resource management outcomes and the associated performance
indicators. In short, the land management agreements demonstrate the ‘outcomesbased’ philosophy adopted in the strategy.
Land Tenure and Land Management
Discussion of the management of land held by Farmer has been largely dominated
by political scientists, sociologists, human geographers, environmental and
biophysical scientists, and urban and regional planners. Agricultural and resource
economists have had little involvement in the debate. The decision and subsequent
Commonwealth legislation, together with State and private investors, has meant that
increasing areas of land are coming under the control (in various forms) of
Aboriginal groups. Without a doubt, the ways in which this land is managed will
determine to a very large extent the future economic development of Benishangul
Aborigines.
The most widely accepted position among economists with respect to the
relationship between land tenure, economic development, and environmental
sustainability is that secure, individualized land tenure is essential for robust
economic development and environmental sustainability. Secure, individualized
land tenure means that individuals hold the right to use the land for whatever
purposes they wish, except for illegal activities and activities that attenuate the rights
held by others, including the state. The title may be freehold or it may be leasehold,
but to give leaseholders the incentive to develop the land to its full potential the lease
should be sufficiently long. To be secure, the property right must have the full
backing of the government. Three very important consequences flow from such
rights. First, the holder of the right to the land knows that he/she will be able to
receive the benefits of any investments made in the land. Because investments such
as buildings or fences last for many years, leases have to be long-term. Second, as
the secure, individual land title is the main form of collateral taken by banks as
security for loans, loans for investment, and consumption purposes can be raised by
mortgaging the land. As , says, ‘land that cannot be mortgaged is dead capital’. If a
country cannot provide such security for loans, it is unlikely that it will be able to
develop a mature financial sector. People will be limited to intra-family credit or to
borrowing at very high-interest rates and only for very short periods from informal
lenders. Third, if individuals have secure property rights over land, they will be
likely to take care of it. It is an asset that they will be keen to see an increase in value
in order that it will generate a higher income stream for themselves and their heirs.
For all these reasons, secure, individual property rights to land are likely to lead to
increased productivity, which means economic growth and development. It is also
likely to ensure the sustainability of the land. When no one has rights over the land
– a situation of ‘open accesses – none of these conditions hold. The land cannot be
used as security for credit, people are not willing to invest in it to improve its
productivity because they will not be able to gain the benefits of their investments,
and everyone who can gain access to it will exploit the land to the maximum, which
will lead to its deterioration. But there are few instances of open access as far as land
is concerned. Where land is not held under freehold, it is under some form of
‘common property’ ownership. Either the state controls it and manages it as a state
enterprise or leases it out to individuals on long-term leases, or land is held as
common property (‘customary ownership’) by groups of people (such as tribes or
clans). The question arises whether land held under forms of common property is
managed in as productive and environmentally sustainable a manner as land held
under individual tenure.
The most dramatic comparison between the two forms of tenure has been seen in
China and Vietnam, where land under state control and earlier farmed by collectives
was subsequently leased on a long-term basis to individual farm households. The
difference in productivity between the case where individuals did not hold rights to
the land and therefore had no stake in its performance, and where farmers now have
the right to the output from the land, in both countries has been breathtaking. In a
period of a few years, Vietnam moved from having to import over one million tons
of rice a year to where it is now the second-largest rice exporter in the world. An
agricultural revolution of nearly similar magnitude took place in China.
Customary ownership of land is not always clearly common property, as individuals
within the ownership group are often given certain rights such as rights to farm or to
erect housing. However, because these rights are not such that a bank can take a
mortgage over a title to the land, and individuals cannot be sure that they will be able
to reap the benefits of any investments they may make, it is unlikely that the land
will be utilized in as productive a manner as to where there is secure, individual
tenure. There may well be an investment in the land but it is likely to be at a
suboptimal level. A surprising point about the agricultural revolutions in China and
Vietnam was that they took place in the absence of clarity about the farm
households’ rights to mortgage, sell, or inherit the land. It may well be that
agricultural production increased so dramatically because the countries were well
inside their transformation frontier, and while farmers had sufficient security of
tenure to provide incentives for increased effort on their part, production is still
suboptimal because their land rights are not fully secure. In fact, there has been little
in the way of long-term investments by farmers in China and Vietnam. Most of the
gains in productivity appear to have come from improved farming practices and
increased farmer effort. Clearer and more secure rights to land could lead to even
greater production.
Policy for Agriculture as the Engine of Development
The theoretical and historical analysis presented has shown that the engine of
development in its initial phases is and has got to be agriculture which this is
often so not only because growth within the relatively massive agricultural sector
will have bigger impacts on the entire growth of the economy directly but also
because agricultural growth accelerates non-agricultural growth and structural
transformation even more. The market support school of thought is thus absolutely
correct in taking agriculture because the engine of the first phases of development.
Market failures associated with technology, capital markets, weak and absent
markets are even more prominent in agriculture than within the other
sectors resulting in variety of malicious circles and poverty traps(Cortez, 1999). A
door
watchdog
government,
a
government
whose
intervention within
the economy is extremely limited would be unable to beat the malicious circles and
poverty traps. The market support paradigms advocacy of such a government in
developing countries is thus likely to stay such countries hindered in poverty traps.
The market support school's specialize in resource transfer because the key linkage
between agriculture and non-agriculture is erroneous. Moreover, its specialize in the
worth mechanism to carry-out this resource transfer is additionally erroneous. The
neo-liberal assertion that getting prices right is an efficient way of completing the
transfer which getting prices right means opening agricultural products markets is
fundamentally wrong. Getting prices right means getting the non-market
determinants of agricultural prices right. Once the determinants of agricultural prices
are right various price and non-price mechanisms are often wont to perform the
transfer without negatively affecting the incentives to farmers. If the determinants
of agricultural prices (non-market determinants) are wrong, the opening of
agricultural prices won't make sure the right prices. The single willing specialize
in the liberalization of agricultural prices at the expense of handling the
important non-market determinants of those prices will cause the continuation of the
universal market failures in agriculture(Bogucki, 2000).
A door watchdog government, a government whose intervention within
the economy is extremely limited would be unable to beat the malicious circles and
poverty traps. The market support paradigms advocacy of such a government in
developing countries is thus likely to stay such countries hindered in poverty traps.
The market support school's specialize in resource transfer because the key linkage
between agriculture and non-agriculture is misplaced. Moreover, its specialize in the
worth mechanism to carry-out this resource transfer is additionally misplaced. The
neo-liberal assertion that getting prices right is an efficient way of completing the
transfer which getting prices right means opening agricultural products markets is
fundamentally wrong. Getting prices right means getting the non-market
determinants of agricultural prices right. Once the determinants of agricultural prices
are right various price and non-price mechanisms are often wont to perform the
transfer without negatively affecting the incentives to farmers. If the determinants
of agricultural prices (non-market determinants) are wrong, the opening of
agricultural prices won't make sure the right prices. The single willing specialize
in the liberalization of agricultural prices at the expense of handling the
important non-market determinants of those prices will cause the continuation of the
universal market failures in agriculture(Moore, 2010). The view that the savings rate
of a rustic is higher when wealth distribution is skewed has been and may be
contested empirically. But albeit this were to be true there's no theoretical reason
why piling up savings where social capital is low and opportunistic behavior,
viciousness, and Engagement are prevalent, where technological diffusion and
adoption is severely retarded, where market supporting institutions are absent or
non-existent, and where the multiplier effect of agricultural growth on nonagricultural is severely curtailed will accelerate growth. It is impossible to
convincingly argue that increasing savings has such an awesome impact on
growth on predominate all the checking effects of inequitable distribution of wealth
on development(Gallo, 2002).
Poverty Cases in Developing Country
The developing country faces many challenges in order to make an improvement in
its development of the economy. Many developing countries have a lot of population
but their per capita income is low. A low level of national income may affect the
process on the development of the country. This circumstance can give many
problems to a developing country that has many populations because they cannot
provide enough facilities and basic needs that the citizen demanded. An inequality
problem will occur due to the low level of infrastructure because not all people can
enjoy the facilities provided by the government. There are many problems that
developing countries cannot be resolved and it is contributing to an increase in the
level of poverty.
Firstly, developing countries cannot provide proper education to their citizen. They
may have provided school but many of the schools are located in urban places. The
government also provides a school in a rural area but not enough to use it by all of
them. For rural students, they face many problems in order to get a proper education.
Facilities and teaching tools in school is not enough and sometimes it is in bad
condition. There are insufficient of total teacher that teaching in school. So, the
students are unable to get much education because they are not provided with
textbooks the environment of the school is bad. Low level of education may cause
the people in rural cannot develop themselves and their condition may constant in
order to get out from that poverty gap.
Secondly, the government cannot provide enough health facilities to people. The
government only build hospital and clinic in an urban area that located far from a
rural area. The people that living in rural areas cannot go to check up on their health
care frequently because the hospital and clinic are far from their place. This problem
can affect their standard of living because they do not have any medicine to cure for
their illness if they got that. Lack of health care will cause to increase in the spreading
of dangerous diseases among communities like malaria and dengue that can lead to
an increase in mortal rate. If this problem is not solved by the government,
development for a rural place will go down and they cannot get out of poverty
condition.
Then, people in developing country are having the problem of insufficient of food.
Many developing countries having many problems in order to produce enough food
for their people. There are many factors that affect short of the food supply in the
country. Several countries might have a natural disaster problem like a long-term
drought for many months and floods. Due to these problems, a crop that the farmers
planted is totally destroyed. The food supply in-country will become low and the
government had to constrain it. In another situation, the suppliers who sold the food
might take a high price for that food and it cannot afford by low-income people. So,
they cannot get enough food for daily use, and sometimes they are not eating at all.
This problem will increase the level of poverty. So to tack-out, the root of poverty
in a developing country or community like Aboriginal in Benishangul, the
policymaker of the country should re-check the working culture, the way the local
community-centered the natural resources that exist on them and the way they think
for their future generations. Because I can argue that no one has enough resources
on his nearby and still he is poor, unless the guys center the future situation wrongly,
or the guys have uneconomic thinking ability for both saving and consumptions. The
above arguments can hold true for the community in the least developed.
Adopting Sustainable Land Management: Alleviating
Poverty
Global evidences
The realization that land has actually been neglected is belatedly starting to gain
traction, especially following the recent food crises. Between 10 – 20 you look
after dry lands are degraded and 24 you look after globally usable land on Earth is
degraded at an estimated economic loss of USD 40 billion per annum . This includes
a startling loss of grain worth USD 1.2 billion yearly. By 2050, a minimum of a 70
– 100% increase in food production from existing natural resource could also
be needed so as to be ready to feed current and future generations. If agricultural
land productivity remains at its current levels, an estimated 6 million hectares (ha)
of land (roughly like the dimensions of Norway) would wish to be converted to
agricultural production per annum until a minimum of 2030 to satisfy this growing
demand. Thus, awareness of the seriousness and extent of land degradation is
gradually reversing the normal disregard for its impacts on both economic and social
development
in
affected
countries.
The
combination
of
land
prices
that are increasing since 2007/2008 and therefore the proliferating rush of foreign
investors seeking to shop for or lease land may be a signal that the world
is awakening to threats from land degradation and shutting frontiers. Despite this
interest, levels of investment in land remain far below those needed to satisfy the
rising demands for food and land related services. Agricultural investments to the
order of USD 30 billion per year are needed to feed our growing global population
Answering the economic questions of land degradation and providing integrated
frameworks for informed action are particularly important in the context of
increasing land scarcity(Thibon et al., 2019). Globally, the human population has
reached a stage where cultivated areas can no longer be expanded except in limited
areas of South America and Sub-Saharan Africa, and even then the geographical
extent of exploitable land may be over-estimated Furthermore, land degradation
most directly impacts one of the most vulnerable human populations – the rural poor.
More than 1.2 billion people live on fragile lands in developing nations, where they
are clustered in fragile environments, remote areas, and/or on marginal lands, and
depend directly upon the most degraded land for his or her sustenance and income.
Poverty and land degradation have a mixed relationship, as examined in Barbier and
described by Braun and Gerber and Barbier, and may either increase the impact of
or be one of the drivers of land degradation. Under certain conditions(Wang et al.,
2010), the rural poor can find themselves perpetuating patterns of land degradation,
because they have no alternative ways to ensure their survival in such hostile
environments. These “asset-less” poor are presumably to suffer from extreme land
degradation, leading to a “poverty-environment trap”. Better land management must
provide immediate beneficial impacts to household livelihoods so as to alleviate
poverty, especially for the agricultural poor. Provided that they are rewarded for
their maintenance of/contribution to the services that land can provide which are
beneficial at the global level (such as carbon storage) or regional level (such as water
purification), fostering the adoption of sustainable land management by the poor
could enable the greatest and most efficient rewards in achieving food security and
global land restoration.
However, if the poverty-environment trap does not close up on them, the poor
naturally act as caretakers of the land they depend upon, as they are the first to most
directly benefit from good land management. Through this, they effectively limit
land degradation. In this case, scaling up practices adopted by the poor and
establishing an enabling environment could bring the greatest and most efficient
rewards in achieving food security and global land restoration.
As part of discussions focused on the post Rio+20 sustainable development goals,
the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has proposed a
target of zero net land degradation. In order to attract the necessary investments
to prevent and/or reverse land degradation, this goal will require a focus on the
economic value of land and the economics of land degradation. The provision of
monetary figures reflecting these assessments and potential returns on investment
are extremely valuable tools when presenting sustainable land management
options to investors. For example, closing yield-potential gaps and reaching 95 you
look after potential maximum crop yields (assuming the adoption of sustainable
land management) could create a further 2.3 billion plenty of crop production per
year19, like a possible gain of USD 1.4 trillion. Furthermore, when the
various values of other and complementary land uses are added in, it's quite clear
that there are huge investment opportunities for those committed to achieving
improved land management which will not end in environmental degradation.
Despite the worldwide evidence, the threats’ development situation of the
smallest amount developed communities like Benishangul, alarm for an
enormous , sustainable, and poverty root removing policy design. I can claim that,
having a possible of resources without development thinking would begin with two
ending points. Firstly if the owner of the resources starts economizing it, for the
very fact that, it'd ends poverty. Secondly, the unused potential resources would
fascinate external demands then the conflict would begin.
Conclusion
The article has discuses and clarifies so diverse, financial matters and organization
financial matters speculations, case ponder, and a few experimental pieces of
proving. In addition, I can conclude that the financial disadvantageousness of the
Native community in Benishangul, have the room and logical arrangement, in any
case, it requires detail and assets examinations, as concern the assets potential and
the Native mental make-up.
Of courses, Ethiopia policymakers recommend so money developmental policy
yearly. However, the routinely recommended policy cannot understand the
Benishangul Aboriginal community real situation, because of the Political
coverage’s and I can claim that most of the Ethiopian policymaker underestimate;
the Benishangul Aboriginal community indigenous knowledge, traditional
economic managements, informal institutions, and the psychological attachments
they have with their natural environment.
The Native communities in Benishangul have involved gigantic and huge assets of
arrive, they account for expansive populaces from the entire populace of the locale.
Be that as it may, inside all of the over openings, fundamental advancements drop
beneath a extraordinary address. Is this since of the more noteworthy reliance on
welfare-type arrangements and the moo dependence on the advancement of person
business and financial advancement in Native communities? Let me take off this
address open for research. How to fortify financial improvement within the
community proceeds to be a fervently challenged subject. Be that as it may, how to
do it within the setting of Benishangul Aboriginal communities could be a point that
has barely been tended to. The need of intrigued within the address from Ethiopia
financial specialists is obscure. It would be seen as a issue of such size that it would
rank at the beat of most inquire about motivation. The as it were contrast from this
theoretical circumstance is that the Native populace in a few cases are dispers.
Within the general discussion of economic development, there has been a marked
shift away from the idea that physical capital is the main ingredient missing from the
recipe to promote economic development and that government has an important role
in production activities. Clearly, there are important roles for the government in
promoting economic development in general and in promoting economic
development in Aboriginal communities in Benishangul: particularly in the provision
of basic health and education services and access to markets. Nevertheless, just as
important, or perhaps even more important, there is a complex task for governments
of providing the necessary institutions to ensure that Aboriginal communities and
individuals can have the opportunity to participate as fully in economic growth and
development as the rest of Ethiopia society. In this respect, I argue that there is a case
for not neglecting the possibility that special institutions may be needed to assist them
to overcome their disadvantage within Ethiopia society, given the history of prejudice
against them.
I can argue that the poor are not passive in the face of political pressure, although
they often face major sprints and opposition, nevertheless, it considers a period of
course. Much can be cultured from processes where they themselves have introduced
political strategies to demand a share of benefits from natural resources.
Because of their special skills and experience agricultural and resource economists
have much to offer in developing these special institutions – particularly in respect
to land tenure. Agriculture and resource economists also have much to contribute
with respect to the development of contracts for mining of Aboriginal lands to
maximize the benefits to Aborigines, as well as to the rest of Benishangul. We can
also contribute to the management of the natural resource revenues accruing to
Aboriginal communities to help avoid rent-seeking behavior and maximizes the
benefits to Aborigines from these revenues.
Equitable distribution of assets in rural areas plays a critical role in accelerating
agricultural development and overall development and structural transformation.
Equity accelerates the adoption and diffusion of agricultural technology. Equity
plays an important role within the establishment and strengthening of market
support
and
other
rural
organizations
and
institutions.
Other challenges to the profession are often envisaged within the development of
land management practices that take under consideration the near subsistence
existence of some Aboriginal communities, their knowledge of their country, their
levels of skills and technical knowledge, and their access to finance. Given their
control over increasingly larger areas of land and water, there should also be close
involvement of Aboriginal communities in the development of environmental
management policies. I hope to see the profession take up these challenges in the
years ahead. Social development is thus not only an important element of
development but also a critical instrument of accelerated economic process . The
accumulation
of social capital, which plays
such
a critical
role in
accelerating economic process , may be a public good, which has increasing returns
to scale.
So to tack-out, the basis of poverty during a developing country or community like
Aboriginal in Benishangul, the policymaker of the country should re-check the
working culture, the way the local community-centered the natural resources that
exist on them and therefore the way they think for his or her future generations.
Because I can argue that no one has enough resources on his nearby and still he is
poor, unless the guys center the future situation wrongly, or the guys have
uneconomic thinking ability for both saving and consumptions. The above
arguments can hold true for the community within the least developed.
Policy Recommendation
Having the above so many discussions, For least developed countries,
especially the Aboriginal communities in Benishangul, Ethiopia, to overcome
their Economics disadvantageous the following recommendation it is better if
it has been taken in to the account:
1. Special institutions may be needed to assist them to overcome their
disadvantage society, given the history of prejudice against them; the
institutions that I am talking about are essential institutions that directly
assist them to participate in economic activities. Institutions which
Taking little account of their limited literacy and numeracy skills and
technological understanding; and that government agencies take little
account of the lack of capital and expertise of financial aspects of land
management of Aboriginal peoples
2. Avoiding such ‘rent-seeking’ behavior and ensuring that mineral
discoveries make the best possible contribution to the welfare of
Aboriginal communities involves negotiating effective contracts with
mining companies and the effective management of the share of mining
revenues accruing to the communities.
3. The institutional environment in which contract negotiations take place
also needs to be considered, trust fund should be organized to tack care
of the contracts and to run the issues according to existing environments
of the Aboriginal community.
4. So, Benishangul Aboriginal community need latest research base technologies
to boost their backward developments.
5. Even though to tackle the bad leadership strong informal institutions and civic
engagement is need for the community who claim developments.
6. The policy maker of the country should re-check the working culture,
the way the local community centered the natural resources that exists
on them and the way they think for their future generations.
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