Papers and Articles on Sidama and related subjects from the Internet
About the People
http://www.ucd.ie/~agri/html/research2/AERD/AERD_3.html
A study of the role of civil society-led development in Sidama, Ethiopia
C. Walsh and J. Phelan
The people who are most in need of development, the poorest, most marginalised and powerless groups in society, are often referred to as project 'beneficiaries', 'recipients' or 'target groups'. The implication is that these people cannot develop themselves and instead must depend on the 'experts', or those at the 'top'. To date, it must be said that the 'experts' have had limited success in developing the
marginalised. However, the practice of a relatively new, people-led, development approach suggests that it is, in fact, the people themselves who have the greatest potential to bring about their own development.
About the Economy
http://www.aaas.org/international/ssa/enset/studies.htm
What are "enset farming systems"?
In contrast to agricultural systems that describe the predominant crop and livestock mixtures, the term "farming system" is technically determined inductively based on a configuration of agro-economical zones and cultural practices in relation to agricultural activities, farm enterprises (e.g., crops, livestock, agroforestry), and off-farm/non-farm enterprises (e.g., wage labor, crafts and trade skills, business enterprises) (Spring, 1995a; 1995b). Within the enset systems, variations in production, distribution, the types of farm and off-farm enterprises, and farmers' management practices of enset cultivation can be described and analyzed at the household and group level. Other variations occur in planting (spacing and timing), fertilization (manuring and mulching), indigenous disease and pest control, nursery and transplanting techniques and timing, sucker propagation, harvesting and processing techniques, labor patterns, and marketing practices.
http://eea.ethiopiaonline.net/Econ-foc/ef3-5/royL3-5.htm
A Note on Farmers' Share of Coffee Prices in Ethiopia and their Relative Volatility
Roy Love
Sheffield Hollam University
A number of attempts have been made from time to time to estimate the farmer's share of the FOB price of coffee exports from Ethiopia. This has been, and remains, particularly difficult in Ethiopia for a number of reasons. One is that there is no regular measurement of farm gate prices (though as we shall see below, some approximation is available). Another arises from the fact that coffee from different regions of the country tend to command different prices and the available statistics do not make it easy to follow a specific provenance through from growing to export. Consequently, previous estimates have depended on the infrequent attempts by planners, field workers and researchers using a variety of assumptions. Some of their conclusions are summarized in Part A while a more systematic attempt is conducted in part B. Part C examines the volatility of coffee prices at different stages in the exporting chain.
About Health
http://www.cih.uib.no/CIHEprintarchive/tb-duration--medscape.htm
Delay in treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. An analysis of symptom duration among Ethiopian patients.
Tesfaye Madebo and Bernt Lindtjørn
Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway
About Religion
[PDF] www.ub.uu.se/acta/91-85424-49-8.pdf
Swedish Institute for Missionary Research, Box 1526, S-751 45 Uppsala, Sweden. Sidama
and Ethiopian The emergence of the Mekane Yesus Church in Sidama Doctoral ...
About History
Stone tools are among the most common, indeed often the only, artifacts found at archaeological sites. Knowledge of what they were used for is important for understanding the behavior of prehistoric groups. Although use-wear studies can determine what ranges of tasks tools were used for, it can only indicate the broad category of use-material. Biological residues, on the other hand, have the potential of revealing which species and subspecies of animal or plant the tool was used on to process. Previous studies have used immunological techniques to identify proteins on stone tools (Tuross et al, 1996, Kooyman et al, 1992, Loy and Hardy, 1992), but there are problems with the technique.
http://www.iol.ie/~mmm/spring97/furra.htm
Queen Furra
Older women in Ethiopia's Sidama Province will tell you that Queen Furra is their beloved leader and their liberator. They grind maize to the rhythm of her lament and pass on the legend about this 10th Century Queen to their children,
singing.
Sidama Music
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