Abstract:
Burayu sub-city expansion program which had been experiencing a horizontal expansion
starting from its historical expansion pattern currently implemented via expropriating
peripheral land holders of earlier rural dwellers by solely decision of town administration
and the investigation randomly targeted to per-urban areas like; Gefersa Nonno, Gefersa
Guje and Melka Gefersa. Rapid expansion of the town and in proportional expansion of
town with community livelihood is a serious issue for conducting research. Thus the study
investigated the impact of urban expansion on the peripheral community livelihood in
case of Burayu sub-city. Questionnaire, survey, focus group discussion and key
informants interviews were tools of data collection from 384 sampled households living
in sampled kebeles via systematic random sampling technique and judgmental technique
for FGD and interview. The results of the study indicated that there is infrastructural
improvement, socio economic growth, rapid population growth and also socio-economic
problems related to urban expansion in studied area. There is great spatial and temporal
land use land cover modification more towards to build up land uses. The livelihood
condition of per-urban community changed to non-agricultural form but there are policy
and strategy gaps of expropriating, compensating for affected community in ground
implementation. The dislocation program implemented is not rehabilitative and
negatively affected the livelihood of the dislocated farming community. Furthermore, the
study revealed that children losses right of family inheritance in town administration.
Landholder expropriated should be recompensed for equal socio-economic beneficially
from urbanization and further skill oriented training for new livelihood strategy and also
accessing credit and rehabilitating strategy were recommended for affected community
livelihood.
