Effects of Quality Coffee Production on Land Use and Climate Change Adaptation in the Context of Local Value Chains in Yirgacheffe District, Ethiopia
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2021-06
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Addis ababa university
Abstract
The study was conducted in Debremarkos Town and its hinterland. In Ethiopia Town factories
and infrastructure are too small and there are a few labor market linkage institution as a result
of this employment linkage between rural to urban has weakened.The general objective of the
study was to investigate the nature of rural-urban linkage and labor market in Debremarkos
Town and its hinterlands.It mainly focused on investigating employment linkages between rural
households and town enterprises. This study employed a cross-sectional survey design. On the
other hand, the study used multistage sampling techniques to select the target population.
Additionally, the study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect the data.
To obtain quantitative data, the study used structured questionnaires whereas qualitative data
were obtained through field observation, document review and semi-structured interview.
Moreover, the study used both primary and secondary data sources. The data was analyzed by
using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, minimum, maximum, mean and
standard deviation. In addition to this, the researcher used interview and analyzed
thematically.According to the findings of the study, the rural workers and urban enterprise faced
diffrent problems such as shortage of capital or income, infrastructure, working areas, lack of
training and skills.The results of the study indicated that the rural non-farm activity in the study
areas were small. In terms of the transactions of agricultural and livestock products, the study
found out that there was a strong market linkages between Debermarkos Town and the
surrounding hinterlands. The study also examined that employees from the rural areas had no
skills required for the business. Furthermor, most of the factories and enterprise owners hired
people who are their close relatives and intimate friends rather than hiring them on the basis of
their skills.Accordingly, the researcher attempted to recommend that stakeholders and
concerned bodies should create conducive working environments and organize skill training
opportunities for rural households so as to create smooth employment linkages with town
enterprises. In addition, rural household should work on the rural non-farm employments and
rural wage employment to reduce unemployment rates.Furthermore, the researcher recommends
that it is better to promote irrigation systems so as to increase and improve agricultural outputs
and keep the rural households at their usual places of residence. To sum up, stakeholders,
investors and concerned bodies should build additional factories in the future in order to create
more job opportunities and to strengthen employment linkages with rural households and
particularly the institution workers and social affair office should take into account these
problems and give skill-based training for rural households and urban dwellers.
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Rural-Urban Linkage, Labor Market, Urban Enterprises, Debremarkos Town