Livelihood Situations and Food Security Status of Farmers Displaced By Urban Expansion in Deben Town, Ethiopia.
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2019-09
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Addis Ababa University
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This study examines Livelihood situations and the Food security status of farmers displaced by urban expansion in Dejen town Ethiopia. Based on the descriptive research design, the study applies the mix methods of both Qualitative and Quantitative approaches. A household survey was conducted on148 households sampled through non-probability Sampling techniques: especially availability sampling techniques were employed. Primary data is collected through the In-Depth interview and household survey, while the secondary data were from different written documented sources. Having analyzed the collected data through SPSS version 21, the researcher is concluding that horizontal urban expansion hurts the livelihood situations and food security status of the peri-urban agricultural community in Ethiopia, as the Dejen town case had shown. The results of the study indicated implemented urban sprawl was highly affecting the five livelihood situations of the study area, the extent of the suburb people willing, participation and decision making was limited rather the role was focused only on presence in the meetings. The compensation is not mostly wisely managed by the society as well by the sub-city and stakeholder institutions. So suburb urban sprawl is negatively affecting the livelihood of the farming community especially the five livelihood elements (financial, natural, human, physical and, social capitals are significantly reduced as the study result shows. So, the study revealed that the community, in general, is the major victim of the livelihood crisis and food insecurity problems. Thus, it is the recommendation of this study that there is a need to prevail urban good governance to curtail the problem, especially, following participatory approach on stakeholders, particularly, household in to urban development plans and projects, there should exist effective rules and regulations which guide expropriation from land and compensation to displaced households when their land is expropriated for public interest. There would also the consideration of the recipients' interests in kind and quantity of compensation and if money is only possible resolutions on a kind of compensation to displaced households then, pre-trainings and post-coaching need to be carried out to enable such community to sustain and secure their livelihood in such changed and continuously re changing urban terrains.
Keywords:Displacement, Food-security, Households, Livelihood, Peri-urban
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Displacement, Food-security, Households, Livelihood, Peri-urban