In the context of her PhD thesis „Foreign agricultural investments – land grabbing or an essential move towards development? A case study of Ethiopia” Myra Posluschny-Treuner examines the impact of agricultural modernization strategies within the framework of national and international development concepts on the local population in Ethiopia. The objective is to contribute to and to expand further on the ongoing global discussion on foreign agricultural investments being the facilitating trigger for either rural development or solidification and an increase of rural poverty. Taking a political ecology perspective, she investigates political power relations, the policy environment, institutional dynamics, as well as environmental impacts and potential and existing conflicts in Ethiopia’s Oromia region.
During her stay from September to November, Myra Posluschny-Treuner will work closely with Klaus Dieter Wolf from Research Department "Private Actors in the Transnational Sphere". Her stay is made possible by the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” of the Goethe University Frankfurt.