Understanding policy processes in Ethiopia: a response.

Responds to the comments to the article "Knowledge, Power and Politics: The Environmental Policy-making Process in Ethiopia," by James Keeley and Ian Scoones in the 2000 issue of this journal. Criticism of environmental rehabilitation policies based on the assumption that increasing land degradation is the trend in all places; Argument that the principal reason for this is farmer and pastoralist mismanagement of the land; Pattern of one-size-fits-all implementation of conservation techniques and practices.