The Environmental Crunch in Africa by Jon Abbink

Author:Jon Abbink
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Suri seriously resent the ‘settlement programme’ (Amharic: säfära program) of the government obliging them to sedentarize and congregate in limited spaces and finding neither room for the livestock herds, nor for proper cultivation plots. The type of housing—tin-roofed square structures of bad quality—are impopular, and people do not understand why the new, prescribed village sites are not built near a water source, like traditional Suri villages are. 34 They also resent the patronizing efforts to ‘teach them how to do agriculture,’ while they are excellent cultivators already, both of food staples (sorghum , maize ) and horticultural crops. They also see dangers of over-exploitation of the limited territory. There are complaints about the density, the cutting down of shade trees and the rapid exhaustion of the small fields for cultivation . Decisions as to plant what and where by Suri are subverted, leading to confusion and restriction of production. This shows that the ‘villagization programme’ has not been thought over properly regarding its impact on the immediate environment. In addition to the villagization and plantation outlays, the area is crisscrossed by road-building projects, both done for security reasons (to allow army access) as well as facilitate external investors moving in. Suri fields and pasture routes are crossed by these roads, which tear up the landscape and are resented.

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