Abstract:
Agriculture, which constituted cereal production, poultry and Animal husbandry, is the
backbone of Ethiopia's Economy. The livelihood of millions of Ethiopians is directly or
indirectly tied and relies up on it. In short word, human live and agriculture have a more than
ten thousand years interactions. Many Ethiopian and foreign scholars hooped to study and
contribute their share to this field. I too, attempted to reconstruct a history of animal
husbandry and population settlement in Fogara Wardda from 1974 to 2006. In this
reconstruction two major historical themes are emphasised. The first is animal husbandry and
the second theme ts focused on population settlement. These two themes in turn restructured in
to four sounding chapters.
To construct a logical objective and reliable historical documents the reasercher gave
priorities for primary sources. To this end documents at North Gondar Archival Centre,
Fogara Warada and Amhara National RegionalState Agriculture Bureau are extensively
collected. To fill the information gaps seen in archival documents and to create tough essay the
researcher discussed published, unpublished and electronic sources exist in Bahir Dar
University. Elders in Fogara Warada, who played a role as a stakeholder in animal husbandry
and settlement scheme, were carefully selected for interview. The evidences from archival
documents, literatures and interviews were crosschecked well and carefully constructed so as
to construct sounding historical evidences. The historical survey followed by their state of
existence, factors related to it and lastly the cronic animal husbandry problems and the impact
of villagization on population settlement are outlined well in the document.
