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As urban centres expand into surrounding peripheral areas, indigenous farmers face eviction and heightened vulnerability to the adverse impacts of urbanisation. An assessment across five municipalities in Ethiopia's Amhara regional state, drawing on surveys with two hundred evicted peri-urban farmers and interviews with thirty municipal officials, demonstrates that land redevelopment continuously undermines farming livelihoods. Urban growth in the region is primarily driven by economic policy reforms, efforts to attract private investors, unmet demand for urban housing, and expanding public sector projects. Displaced agricultural communities suffer from a combination of policy shortcomings, weak municipal governance, unresolved conflicts, poor saving habits, and an absence of structured livelihood planning. Recommended measures include full implementation of urban policies, collaborative actions serving mutual stakeholder interests, comprehensive profiling of affected farmers, and continuous tracking of post-eviction livelihoods.
Rapid urban expansion frequently displaces agricultural communities without adequate transition support or safety nets. Understanding the economic consequences of municipal growth on peri-urban farmers helps highlight the systemic risks of uncoordinated land redevelopment. The insights demonstrate the urgent necessity for regional authorities to establish balanced development strategies, stronger municipal governance, and social protections that prevent evicted farming households from falling into prolonged economic distress.
The abstract does not indicate an immediate commercial application pathway, as the work is focused on socioeconomic analysis and public policy. The findings could, however, inform urban planning authorities, regional administrators, and development organisations designing policy interventions, compensation frameworks, or farmer reintegration programmes. The study remains early-stage social research rather than a commercial product or service.
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Abstract As urban expands into peripheral areas, peri-urban indigenous farmers lose their land and highly vulnerable to negative externalities of urbanization. The aim of the study is to assess the economic linkage between urban development and the livelihood of peri-urban farming communities, focus on current practice and policies. From Ethiopia, Amara regional state was selected. Through multistage sampling, five municipalities (Debra Birhan, Shewa Robit, Kombolcha, Dessie, and Woldia) were taken as the sample from Amara regional state. Interviews were conducted with 30 municipalities’ officials of the selected town. Questionnaires collected from 200 respondents of peri-urban evicted farmers. As the findings of the study suggest, peri-urban farmers’ evictions from their indigenous land for land re-development are the continuous process that negatively affects the livelihood of farming communities. The factors that contribute for urban expansion in Amara regional state are economic policy reform, the creation of enabling the environment for private investors, the unsatisfied demand of urban dwellers for residential, and expansion of public sector projects. A collaborative effect of policy limitations, potential conflicts, unplanned livelihood, and poor saving habits of peri-urban farmers, lack of municipality intervention and lack of good governance negatively affect the livelihood of peri-urban farmers and jeopardize the image of government. The forwarded solutions are municipalities should have fully implemented urban policies, should have work on mutual benefits of concerned stakeholders, farmers’ background should be recorded and continuous follow up of evicted farmers livelihood should be practiced.
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DOI: 10.1186/s40100-020-00164-2
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