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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.

埃塞俄比亚下奥莫河谷的自然、社会和经济环境正在发生迅速变化，这是国家主导的将该地区重新定位为主要食糖出口国的发展愿景的一部分。与此同时，这些变化增加了环境退化的风险，以及出现新的不平等和冲突的风险。下奥莫地区是众多牧民群体的家园，也是种族、语言和文化多样性的主要中心——这体现在它被联合国教科文组织列为世界遗产（Schlee，2009 年；Turton，1991 年）。虽然新的糖业庄园有望创造超过 150,000 个新就业岗位，但它们也吸引了来自其他地区的劳务移民，建立了新的财富和机会等级制度，并加剧了社会紧张局势（Tewolde 和 Fana，2014 年）。作为雄心勃勃的增长和转型计划（FDRE 2010、2015）的一部分，埃塞俄比亚政府已为甘蔗项目分配了 175,000 公顷土地（超过肯尼亚的整个灌溉面积），旨在将全国食糖产量从 1700 万吨增加到 4200 万吨。据政府称，那些没有充分利用土地的牧民已将其“未充分利用”的土地重新用于甘蔗种植园和工业场地，这些场地将生产价值 6.617 亿美元的糖并生产替代能源（每年 304,000 立方米乙醇和 607 兆瓦电力）。这种情况提出了有关当前发展模式的社会正义维度及其对社会生态复原力的影响的紧迫问题。以下相互关联的研究问题将构建我们对持续变化及其后果的探索：1．最近的事态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。资源变化如何影响该地区的冲突动态？（冲突和恢复力）3。这些变化如何影响物质/平等关系？（财富与贫困/资源安全）这些问题将由分别在环境可持续性、冲突研究和贫困研究领域拥有专业知识的三个工作组来解决。该小组将首先进行涉及跨学科和利益相关群体的知识生成的研究，然后以知识交换和综合的形式开展应用工作。研究设计的第一步将适应利益相关者识别、研究假设范围界定和测试的循环；接下来是使用传统（调查、焦点小组）和参与性研究方法进行数据收集的密集时期。至关重要的是，我们的工具将包括参与式视频方法，用于激发有关当前发展模式的对话，而由于语言、距离和权力的障碍，这种对话几乎不可能实现。因此，该项目将促进知识共享、处理和利用，并探索如何将有关环境变化及其对贫困、和平和安全影响的知识最好地纳入不同利益相关者的决策中。