{"id":278047,"date":"2019-06-05T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiO2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmVxdWFsdGltZXMub3JnL3RoZS1yZWFsLWNvc3Qtb2YtZXRoaW9waWFuLXN0eWxl0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:41","slug":"equal-times-asked-what-communities-paid-for-ethiopian-style-development-around-lake-abijatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278047","title":{"rendered":"Equal Times asked what communities paid for \u2018Ethiopian-style development\u2019 around Lake Abijatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Equal Times described cracked lakeshores and shrinking waters around Ethiopia\u2019s Lake Abijatta, where soda-ash industry and development pressure were changing livelihoods and wildlife habitat.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602495\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amhara-lake-tana-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Equal Times asked what communities paid for \u2018Ethiopian-style development\u2019 around Lake Abijatta\" \/>\n<p>The essay used the Rift Valley lake as a case study for the social and environmental cost of growth models that treat land and water as inputs first and community commons second.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics and environment analysis, the Equal Times report dates a mid-2019 critique of Ethiopian-style development from the Abijatta shore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equaltimes.org\/the-real-cost-of-ethiopian-style\">Equal Times<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real cost of &#8216;Ethiopian-style development&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp;Equal TimesAround Ethiopia&#8217;s Lake Abijatta the ground crunches beneath you, and it becomes impossible to approach the lake&#8217;s pink flamingos without the risk of it cracking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amhara-lake-tana-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1akD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755045,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278047\/revisions\/755045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}