Sugar industrialization and distress selling of livestock among the Bodi pastoralists in Ethiopia’s lower Omo valley

Abstract This article, based on long-term fieldwork, argues that the Bodi, a small agro-pastoral community in Ethiopia’s lower Omo Valley, are experiencing distress selling of livestock and are undergoing collective impoverishment. These processes are a result of the rapid comprehensive transformati...

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Main Author: Fana Gebresenbet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-01
Series:Pastoralism
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-020-00180-3