Unmaking the Commons: Collective Action, Property Rights, and Resource Appropriation among (Agro-) Pastoralists in Eastern Ethiopia
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In Ethiopian development policies, pastoralist areas have recently attracted more
attention. However, much debate and policy advice is still based on assumptions
that see a sedentary lifestyle as the desirable development outcome for pastoralist
communities. This paper investigates current practices of collective action and how
these are affected by changing property rights in the pastoralist and agro–
pastoralist economies of three selected sites in eastern Ethiopia. We describe forms
of collective action in water and pasture resource management and analyze how
changing property rights regimes affect incentives for collective action. We illustrate
the distributional effects these practices are having on (agro–) pastoralist
communities and how these practices are being influenced by the broader political
and economic dynamisms of the area.