Leaf of Allah: Khat & Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia 1875-1991In the late-19th-century, the main cash crop of Harerge, Ethiopia, shifted from coffee and food crops to khat, a quasi-legal psychoactive shrub. This text examines the demographic, market and political factors behind this change and explores the consequences. North America: Ohio U Press |
Contents
Introduction Social historiographical contexts | 3 |
The Setting Regional geography human landscape | 30 |
Khat Agriculture Trade | 39 |
Land Railway Structures of agriculture trade 18751935 | 41 |
Production The agrarian system population growth farming strategies 193564 | 57 |
Consumption Marketing Pastime protest political economy 193564 | 76 |
Export Trade Constraints control contraband 196474 | 100 |
Domestic Use Trade Social mobility structures of distribution selfsufficiency 196474 | 121 |
The Khat Boom Production marketing in a controlled economy 197491 | 141 |
Khat Contraband Profits professions parallel markets | 164 |
Conclusion The dilemma of khatbased development | 179 |
Coffee khat exports from Harerge 193691 | 187 |
Glossary | 188 |
Selected informants | 189 |
Bibliography | 191 |
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Abdi Abebe Addis Ababa Addis Ababa University Aden Aden Colony Africa Alemaya Amharic areas awrajas AwWoday birr Bulletin on Narcotics cash crop Catha edulis cathinone CHATCO Chercher chewers chewing khat coffee commodities consumer contraband contraband trade Customs demand Development Dire Dawa Djibouti East Eastern Ethiopia economic Ethiopia Ethiopian government expansion of khat exporting khat farming food crops Foreign Trade Ganda Gebre Gursum Haile Sellassie Hajji Haramaya Harar Harerge highlands Harerge Province Harerge's Hargeisa hectares important income increased Inderassie of Harerge Interview irrigation Issa Jijjiga Journal KECE kg of khat khat business khat consumption khat cultivation khat export Khat farmer khat market khat production khat trade khat-chewing khat's kilogram Kombolcha land million birr Ministry officials Ogaden Oromo parallel market Peasant percent plant policies political population potato railway Report revenue rural smuggling social Somalia Somaliland Protectorate sorghum Studies taxes town transportation unofficial urban Workineh Wolde Amanuel Yemen