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“God has Locked the Sky”: Exploring Traditional Farming Systems in Tigray, Ethiopia.

Nov 26, 2015

Nava Derakhshani

Year: 2015

Document type: Student Research

This study sought to explore the environmental degradation of Tigray through both a literature review of its agricultural socio-political history and a lived experience in the village of Abraha We Atsebaha among farmers of the region. It uses a variety of methodologies and methods, including a literature review, grounded theory, narrative inquiry and ethnography, to expand on the factors that have contributed to the current degradation, the implications for traditional farming and the potential for land regeneration.