The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia: An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger by Peveri Valentina

Author:Peveri, Valentina [Peveri, Valentina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of Arizona Press

The model farmer is chosen by the ruling party. One becomes a model when he accepts the techniques of cultivation fostered by the government. This is true not only in the field but also inside the house; for example, they want us to build a wall in order to keep cattle separate within the domestic sphere. But mostly the training has to do with the method you plant cereals, in rows instead of broadcasting. Or it is about drilling wells and using water for irrigation. Sometimes they bring here different kinds of vegetables and explain in detail to farmers how to cultivate them; at the demonstration trials they deliver all the required materials, sometimes very expensive ones, for cultivating the new crops. They do that just for the sake of showing off. In all these cases, they call it “technology.” They say that the ultimate goal is to improve the living standard of rural families. Certain points of the training are good. Others are bad for us. Yet, as a matter of fact, it is the model farmers who receive money and oxen, sometimes a radio; they get rewards and privileges. Model farmers are chosen on the basis of their political affiliation.12

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