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| Title: | Globalization and indigenous environmental knowledge in Ethiopia |
| Author: | Workineh Kelbessa |
| Book title: | Globalization, democracy and development in Africa: challenges and prospects |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Pages: | 275-306 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | indigenous knowledge global economy environmental policy environment |
| Abstract: | Free market environmentalism and regional and global trade agreements have very little to contribute to environmental protection. In global free trade, what is valuable is decided by money. In Ethiopia, the globalization process has marginalized peasants and challenged environmentally sound practices. The application of structural adjustment programmes since 1991 has had both positive and negative effects. While economic liberalization measures seem to have created incentives for the production, processing and marketing of coffee, the expansion of coffee production at the expense of other crops could have long-range devastating consequences for the country. Moreover, it is obvious that economic reforms have not improved the living conditions of the rural poor. There is no legal protection for the practitioners of indigenous knowledge systems in Ethiopia. Rules established in the GATT's recently concluded Uruguay Round regarding trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPs) and trade-related investment measures (TRIMs) are favourable to transnational corporations. At the same time, globalization processes have not gone unchallenged by indigenous people and peasant farmers around the world. Bibliogr., notes. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
