Linkages between Livelihood Diversification and Changes of Land use Land Cover in Pastoral Regions. The case of the Karray Pastoral Community, Oromiya, Ethiopia.
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2009-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This paper examines the recently growing adoption of non-pastoral livelihood
strategies and its linkages with changes of land use/land cover among the Karrayu
pastoralists in Fentale Woreda, East Showa Zone. Three kebeles were selected from
18 rural kebeles. With a constructive combination of surveys, qualitative and
quantitative data collection techniques for the livelihood diversification study and
analysis of remote sensing data by GIS framework to study the land use/land cover
dynamics.
The study showed that, a large portion of the current non-pastoral participation is in
farming, natural resource-based activities and waged labors. A host of natural and
anthropogenic forces drive this growing pastoralist shift in to cultivation and other
non pastoral livelihood system. Pastoralist activity choices reveal that access to
natural resource and infrastructure determines how they diversify. This natural
resource based shift is bound to cause changes in land use/land cover in the study
area. Two sets of remotes sensing data from 1986 and 2000 were analyzed to study the
land use/land cover change.
The findings underscore that there is an increase of farm land by 64%, which was
1. 9% of the total land mass in 1986 and by 2000 3.4%, where as bare rock cover had
increased by 108%. On the other hand bush land had decreased by 68%, where as
grazing land show a decrease of 19.5%.
Key words: Pastoralism, Agro pastoralism, Karrayu, Livelihood Diversification, Land
Use/Land Cover Changes
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Pastoralism, Agro pastoralism, Karrayu, Livelihood Diversification, Land Use/Land Cover Changes