ABSTRACT

In Ethiopia, farmland belongs to ‘the people’ (the state) and cannot be sold or bought, but compensatory measures have been introduced for land expropriated for infrastructure and industry. The article analyses processes of valuation and compensation of land in Kombolcha district in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Here numerous projects have affected highly productive farmland over the last decade. Monetary compensation to land holders whose farmland is expropriated is relatively new in Ethiopia, and we explore how peasants and authorities gradually have attained increased competence in dealing with land valuation and compensation, faced with often obscure and contradictory legislation.

摘要

在埃塞俄比亚，农田属于“人民”（国家），不能出售或购买，但已针对被征用的基础设施和工业用地采取了补偿措施。本文分析了埃塞俄比亚阿姆哈拉地区孔博尔恰地区的土地估价和补偿过程。在过去的十年中，这里有许多项目影响了高产农田。在埃塞俄比亚，对被征用耕地的土地所有者的货币补偿相对较新，我们探索农民和当局如何在面对经常模糊而矛盾的法律的情况下，逐渐提高其在土地估价和补偿方面的能力。