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    The Political Economy of Agricultural Extension in Ethiopia: Economic Growth and Political Control

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    2012-05
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    Berhanu, Kassahun
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    The central argument in this paper is that, for the past two decades, state-led agricultural extension in Ethiopia, implemented by excluding other players in general and non-state actors in particular, has facilitated uncontested control of the public space by the incumbent Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). In addition to its presumed economic ramifications, the ongoing agricultural extension scheme that is a major component of transforming smallholder agriculture is driven by political imperatives aimed at effectively controlling the bulk of the Ethiopian electorate whose votes in periodic elections are crucial to the regime’s perpetuation in power.
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    Berhanu, K. (2012) The Political Economy of Agricultural Extension in Ethiopia: Economic Growth and Political Control, FAC Working Paper 42, Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium
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    FAC Working Paper;42
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