How Successful the Agricultural Development Ledm Industrialization Strategy (ADLI) Will Be Leaving the Existing Land Holding System Intact – A Major Constraints For The Realization of ADLI’s Targets?

Abstract

Ethiopia remains still a largely food insecure economy. The link between agriculture and the transformation of the national economy is weak. Ideas for transforming agriculture are donor influenced if not in some cases even donor dependent. There is doubt that the agricultural led development strategy can overcome donor penetration and influence. There are a number of challenges that the agricultural sector faces. The major is the low productivity of agriculture to overcome the chronic food dependency by the Ethiopian economy. This paper explores the vulnerabilities of agriculture and indeed with it the whole economy