...[I]n a remote valley in southern Ethiopia...an ethnic Mursi man...is so concerned for his people, who have lived here as semi-nomads for generations but may soon be evicted to make way for a giant sugar plantation. "We Mursi [people] do not accept this ambitious government ideology," the man said of an official state plan to house them in new villages in exchange for their compliant departure..."What we want is to use our own traditional way of cultivation," he says...The people of this valley, the Mursi, Bodi, and Karo, some of whom number only a few thousand, would need to reduce their cattle -- their most prized possessions. Then many if not all will move into enlarged permanent villages...[Locals] argue that the people, cultures, language and rights of South Omo people...are threatened by the new influx of migrant workers. “Unless the problem is realized and mechanisms to tackle it are put in place, this demographic change puts the cultural and linguistic rights of the indigenous ethnic groups…at great risk...