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Title:Population growth and settlement expansion in the fringes of Addis Ababa and its impacts on farming households: the case of 'Kebele' 15 of Bole sub-city
Author:Getahun, ChalachewISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSN 1810-4487)
Volume:3
Issue:2
Period:December
Pages:1-26
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., maps
Geographic terms:Ethiopia
Northeast Africa
Subjects:suburban areas
population growth
livelihoods
urbanization
demography
population
Human settlements
land use
agriculture
External link:https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ejossah/article/view/29875
Abstract:This study examines the rate of urban settlement expansion on the fringes of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, its causes and its impact on the livelihoods of the farming households in the area. Aerial photographs, GIS tools and GPS were used for the study, as were questionnaires distributed to sample urban households and interviews with a sample of farming households in 'Kebele' 15 of Bole subcity. The main findings indicate that the rate of urban settlement expansion has been very high. While the city has not expanded uniformly in space and time, the fastest rate of expansion has been observed in recent years, everywhere except in the northern part of the city. In 'Kebele' 15, in the eastern part of the city, the rate of expansion has been particularly high. On the fringes of Addis Ababa, population growth has been more than four times that of the city as a whole. In addition to population growth, the urban development policy of the local government has contributed significantly to the rapid horizontal expansion of the city. This has resulted in the loss of arable land and, therefore, of agricultural livelihoods. The measures taken by the government to compensate peasants for this loss are far from adequate and the affected households have been marginalized and impoverished as a result. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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