Awra Amba RJ 300612 EN - Contacter un comité local d'Attac

Awra Amba, a current experiment of utopian socialism
Picture 2:
Landscape of Amhara region in South of Bahar Dar, typical of volcanic areas.
Picture 3:
Map of the Woji-Arba-Amba kebele where is Awra Amba (Turegn), as posted in Arba
Amba school (Yirga, 2007/116) and transliteration of the map.
The Fogera woreda or district (see Figure 7 and Figure 8) covers an area of 1174 km 2 , and is made
with 76 % plains, 11 % hills and 13 % undulated lands. According to the 2007 census (CSA, 2007),
this woreda had 228 000 inhabitants, whose 89 % were living in rural areas and are farmers; they
were Orthodox at 95.8 % and Muslim at 3.6 %. According to (Wereda Rural Development Office
and ORDA (nd), unpublished documents, cited by At05/25), the population growth was 3 % a year
between 1994 and 2005, and 92 % of the people obtained their livelihood from mixed farming where
29 % of the inhabitants had no oxen, which is a means of production and an indicator of wealth
status. The average land holding size of household is estimated to be 2.1 ha, where 1.4 ha is for
cropland and 0.7 ha is for grazing. Crops provide 65 % of the annual household income, the livestock
35 %, 0,5 % being obtained from the sale of trees, wood and crop residue. The small town of Woreta
is the capital city of this woreda. The later is divided into 29 kebeles (25 rural and 4 urban ones),
equivalent to a rural or urban district.
The 668 ha sub-watershed where Awra Amba is located has an average elevation of 2050 m (1900-
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