Brief Bio-data about
Dessalegn Rahmato
DESSALEGN RAHMATO is the
founder and the first
manager of the Forum for Social Studies, an independent policy research
institution based in Addis Ababa. He was for many years a senior research fellow
at the Institute of Development Research at Addis Ababa University, which
he left in 1997. He has published numerous works on land and agrarian issues,
food security, poverty and environmental policy. Among his main works are:
Agrarian Reform in Ethiopia (1985); Famine and Survival Strategies:
A Case Study of Northeast Ethiopia (1991); The Dynamics of Rural Poverty:
Case Studies from a District in Southern Ethiopia (1992); Land Tenure and
Land Policy in Ethiopia after the Derg (1994, editor); Environmental
Change and State Policy in Ethiopia (2001); Democratic Assistance to
Post-Conflict Ethiopia: Impact and Limitations (co-authored with Meheret
Ayenew, 2004); Searching for Tenure Security: The Land System and New Policy
Initiatives in Ethiopia (2004); and Studies in Agrarian Change in
Ethiopia (forthcoming). He has co-authored two studies on poverty in
the rural and urban areas of the country.
He is the winner of the 1999
Prince Claus Award in recognition of "his achievements in the field of research
and development". The award is given by the Prince Claus Fund of the Netherlands
to individuals from the Third World considered to have made significant
contributions to their societies. A Luminary of Social
research by Bahru Zewde
He is currently working on the
subject of famine and food security.
Address: Forum for Social Studies, P. O. Box 25864 code 1000 Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
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