Rural and Agricultural Development Policy in Ethiopia and its Implementation

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Agrarian Studies, , language: English, abstract: The agriculture-centered rural development policy has been adopted as a major strategy expected to assist in the realization of the country's economic development objective. Nevertheless, the rural development effort is not something that can be regarded as just one element in the overall economic development package. It is more than just that. Rural development constitutes the plank that underlies all other efforts towards economic development. The reason for repeated mention of the nature of economic policy in Ethiopia being agriculture and rural-centered is because this is the basis for implementing the overall economic development objective and the guiding principle for our development efforts (MoFED, 2003).