Glossary: zemecha
DEFINITION:
Amharic for ""campaign,"" in the military sense; popular term used to denote the military government’s Development Through Cooperation Campaign, which was launched as part of the initial land reform in 1975. Early implementation included forced mobilization of university and secondary school students to explain the socialist revolution, including land reform, to peasants and to improve their traditionally low literacy rate. The term ""green"" zemecha was used to describe the agricultural aspects of the National Revolutionary Development Campaign in 1979.