Impact of Urban Expansion on Surrounding Peasant Land the Case of Boloso Sore Woreda, Areka Town, SNNPR, Ethiopia

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Abstract

The main objective of the study was to assess the impact of urban expansion on surrounding peasant land in Areka town. The data were obtained from 68 randomly selected respondents by using questionnaires and interview from municipality office workers other illiterate indigenous peoples of the town as well as from secondary sources were also included. To analysis the collected data were edited, tabulated, percentage and finally descriptive method was employed. The result revealed that there are many factors causing urban expansion to surrounding peasant land: those are establishment of market, infrastructure, rural to urban migration and positive consequences of urban expansion. Such as advance in communication, eclectic power, health and education facilities and also negative consequences of urban expansion such as loss of agricultural land, expansions of crimes, urban pollution and housing problems and lastly the pattern of urban expansion are the major ones. To regulate the impacts of urban expansion that found in the town the participation of government and dwellers of the town are very necessary .

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Mefekir Woldegebriel Tessema. 2017. "Impact of Urban Expansion on Surrounding Peasant Land the Case of Boloso Sore Woreda, Areka Town, SNNPR, Ethiopia". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - B: Geography, Environmental Science & Disaster Management GJHSS-B Volume 17 (GJHSS Volume 17 Issue B2).

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