Abstract:
Rapid urban expansion and population growth, predominantly in fewer developing countries,
are expected to increase anxiety on agricultural production by expanding urban settlement in
cost of croplands, competing for resources, and it leads to loss of biodiversity in Debark
Woreda. This thesis focuses entitled with study is aimed at urban expansion and livelihood
adjustment problems of surrounding farmers in Debark town, Amhara region, and it is aimed at
examining the livelihood strategy, benefit packages offered, adjustment problems and the coping
strategies of surrounding farmers of in the study area. A total of 350 households were addressed
through simple random sampling technique in the study area. Moreover, the study included focus
group discussion from the rural kebeles. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative
methods to analyze the data, and the study used both primary and secondary data. In addition to
descriptive statistics inferential statistics like binary logistic regression model was taken as a
method for analyzing the perception of the displaced farmer, and multiple logistic regression
model also used in order to identify the livelihood coping strategies of displaced farmers in
addition to satellite images for the year 1999, 2009 and 2019.The satellite image results show
that built up area increased from 1999 to 2009, from 2009 to 2019 and from 1999 to 2019.
Cultivated land decreased from 1999 to 2009, from 2009 to 2019 and from 1999 to 2019, and the
study result showed that the livelihood of pre-urban community has been jeopardized following
the relocation to the two kebeles. The perception of the displaced farming community towards
urban expansion the socio economic result like gender, tropical livestock unit, land size, off farm
income, and access to credit showed that has significant influence at 0.05 significant levels. In
addition maximum of respondent have dissatisfied on the compensation packages which
accounts 75.7% due to decision of urban expansion program, and the surrounding farmer about
89.5% also haven’t gotten result additional services after urban expansion program. I
recommend that current valuation and compensation laws should need to be rehabilitating,
increasing and generating both formal and informal types of education for enhancing farmer’s
attitude towards livelihood strategy.
