Abstract:
The twenty first century is regarded as a century of urbanizations since both the trends
and rate of urbanizations is very high all over the world. Such rapid prevalence of
urbanization accompanied by its expansion on the surroundings rural areas of the
urban center become a factor of shift in mode of life on the nearby community and
source of change on the livelihoods among the residents on the sub- urban areas.
Having this reality in mind the study is designed to investigate the effects of such
rapid horizontal urban expansion on the livelihood of sub-urban farming
communities’ by taking Shewarobit town as case study . The research is mainly cross
sectional in its design upon which both primary and secondary data sources were used
for the defined time period and segments of population. While conducting the research
both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were applied. The study was
also used 8 key informants and 104 sample respondents as sample participants. Open
ended and closed ended questionnaires were used for collecting the primary data
collect. The study shows that the government does not create awareness to the
displaced farmers why they displaced from their land and they did not test the level
of satisfaction of the surrounding farmers. Hence, to make transparent, participatory
and viable development in urban expansion all actors of development especially the
farmers were very essential. Hence, agreements in pre-awareness and participation of
the farming community in the preceding programs and decision making should be given
first priority before implementation of the program.
