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In Ethiopian development policies, pastoralist areas have recently attracted moreattention. However, much debate and policy advice is still based on assumptionsthat see a sedentary lifestyle as the desirable development outcome for pastoralistcommunities. This paper investigates current practices of collective action and howthese are affected by changing property rights in the pastoralist and agro–pastoralist economies of three selected sites in eastern Ethiopia. We describe formsof collective action in water and pasture resource management and analyze howchanging property rights regimes affect incentives for collective action. We illustratethe distributional effects these practices are having on (agro–) pastoralistcommunities and how these practices are being influenced by the broader politicaland economic dynamisms of the area.
