Livelihood Diversification Strategies of Peri-Urban Farmers PostLand Expropriation and Compensation: Insights from Central Ethiopia
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Urbanization is causing serious livelihood hindrances to households in emerging countries including Ethiopia through uncontrolled land use change. It has been noted to be in a fierce competition with agriculture for land where farmers have been compelled to leave their farm landholding structure because of urbanization. Thus, this paper examined the livelihood diversification strategies of peri-urban farm households after land expropriation and compensation of Debre Berhan and selected towns of North Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region. From the total respondents, using a multistage sampling technique based on a cross-sectional survey, 355 valid responses out of 378 sample respondents from peri-urban households were taken for analysis. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and econometric methods, including binary logit regression. The results revealed that about 61.97% of the total respondents have diversified their livelihood after the compensation, while 38.03% of the farm households were not. In addition, from the total respondents, about 321 (90.42%) households argued that the compensation paid for land expropriation is not fair and the money has less value as compared to the expropriated land. Among the total respondents, approximately 53.48% of the farm households participated in on-farm activities, 15.82% participated in off-farm activities, and 30.70% engaged in non-farm livelihood strategies following the compensation. The binary logit regression demonstrates that household education level and marital status have positive and significant effect on the livelihood choice of households. However, household expropriated land size and household size had negatively influenced livelihood diversification strategies of the respondents. This study suggests that the need for the concerned bodies (such as city Municipal, Ministry of Agriculture) to implement possible substitute livelihoods support schemes integrating off-farm and non-farm and supportive structures such as rehabilitation offices and guiding regulations to help the peri-urban farm households in sustainable way.Keywords: Urbanization; Peri-urban area; Land expropriation; Livelihoods; Binary Logit
Authors: Anteneh Bizualem, Zemenu Bires, Mesele Belay
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7087974085
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