Shifting In/equality Dynamics in Ethiopia: from Research to Application (SIDERA)

埃塞俄比亚的转变/平等动态：从研究到应用（SIDERA）

基本信息

批准号：
ES/R002460/1
负责人：
Mercy Mulugeta
金额：
$ 31.92万
依托单位：
Addis Ababa University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FR002460%2F1
关键词：
Shifting equality Dynamics Ethiopia Research

项目摘要

Rapid changes in the natural, social, and economic environment are occurring in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley, as part of a state-led development vision of repositioning the region as a major sugar exporter. At the same time, these changes raise risks of environmental degradation, and the emergence of new kinds of inequality and conflict. The Lower Omo is home to a large number of pastoralist groups, and is a major centre of ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity - reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Schlee, 2009; Turton, 1991). While new sugar estates promise to create >150,000 new jobs, they are also drawing labour migrants from other regions, setting up new hierarchies of wealth and opportunity, and raising social tensions (Tewolde and Fana, 2014). As part of its ambitious Growth and Transformation Plans (FDRE 2010, 2015), Ethiopia's government has allocated 175,000 hectares to the sugarcane project (more than the entire area under irrigation in Kenya), and aims to increase national sugar production from 17 million to 42 million tons. Pastoralists who, according to the government, do not use the land optimally, have had their "underutilized" lands repurposed for sugarcane plantations and industrial sites that will produce sugar worth 661.7 million USD and produce alternative energy sources (304,000m3 of ethanol per year and 607 MW electricity). This scenario raises urgent questions about the social justice dimensions of current development models, and their implications for socio-ecological resilience. The following interlinked research questions will structure our exploration of the on-going changes and their consequences:1. How have recent developments affected the spatial and temporal availability of and access to natural resources in the region? (Environmental sustainability / degradation)2. How are changing resources affecting conflict dynamics in the region? (Conflict and resilience)3. How are these changes influencing relations of material in/equality? (Wealth and poverty / resource security)These questions will be addressed by three Working Groups with expertise in the fields of environmental sustainability, conflict studies, and poverty research respectively. The group will first conduct Research involving knowledge generation across disciplines and stakeholder groups, and second work towards Application in the form of knowledge exchange and synthesis. The first step in the research design will accommodate a cycle of stakeholder identification, scoping and testing of research assumptions; followed by an intensive period of data collection using both conventional (survey, focus group) and participatory research methods. Crucially, our tools will include participatory video methods that will be used to stimulate conversations about current models of development that are rarely possible due to barriers of language, distance, and power. The project will thereby facilitate knowledge sharing, processing, and utilisation, and explore how knowledge regarding the environmental changes and their implications for poverty, peace, and security is best integrated in decision-making for diverse stakeholders.

作为国家主导的发展愿景的一部分，埃塞俄比亚下部的OMO山谷的自然，社会和经济环境的快速变化正在发生，以重新定位该地区为主要的糖出口商。同时，这些变化增加了环境退化的风险，以及新型不平等和冲突的出现。较低的Omo是许多牧民群体的所在地，并且是种族，语言和文化多样性的主要中心 - 反映在其称为联合国教科文组织世界遗产地点（Schlee，2009; Turton，1991）。尽管新的Sugar Estates承诺创造> 15万个新工作，但他们还吸引了来自其他地区的劳工移民，建立了新的财富和机会等级，并增加了社会紧张局势（Tewolde and Fana，2014年）。作为其雄心勃勃的增长和转型计划的一部分（FDRE 2010，2015），埃塞俄比亚政府已将175,000公顷的公顷分配给了甘蔗项目（肯尼亚的整个灌溉面积），旨在将国民糖产量从1.7亿吨增加到4200万吨。据政府称，牧民没有最佳地使用该土地，而是将其“未充分利用”的土地重新用于甘蔗种植园和工业场所，这些土地将产生价值6.617亿美元的糖，并产生替代能源（每年304,000m3的乙醇304,000m3，每年为607 mW电力）。这种情况提出了有关当前发展模型的社会正义维度及其对社会生态弹性的影响的紧急问题。以下相互联系的研究问题将构建我们对正在进行的变化及其后果的探索：1。最近的发展如何影响该地区自然资源的空间和时间可用性和获取？（环境可持续性 /退化）2。如何改变影响该地区冲突动态的资源？（冲突和韧性）3。这些变化如何影响材料与平等关系的关系？（财富和贫困 /资源安全）这些问题将由三个在环境可持续性，冲突研究和贫困研究领域具有专业知识的工作组解决。该小组将首先进行涉及跨学科和利益相关者群体的知识产生的研究，并以知识交流和综合形式进行应用。研究设计的第一步将适应利益相关者识别，研究和测试研究假设的周期；然后使用常规（调查，焦点小组）和参与性研究方法进行密集的数据收集期。至关重要的是，我们的工具将包括参与性的视频方法，这些方法将用于刺激有关当前开发模型的对话，而这些模型由于语言，距离和力量的障碍而很少。该项目将促进知识共享，处理和利用，并探讨有关环境变化及其对贫困，和平和安全的影响的知识如何最适合各种利益相关者的决策。