Abstract:
The land is the ultimate resource and life on the earth cannot be sustained without it.
Hence, scarce resource should be properly planned for good stewardship of the land is
essential for present and future generation. Urban land use is one of the land
management practices that a key tool to coordinate community land use and development
activities as well as to shape the urban development pattern that will be used for different
purpose includes residential, commercial, industrial etc. Urban LMP are facing different
challenges. Thus, the purpose of the study focused to identify the determinants of land
management practices on land use using the information that extracted from the study
area by using the target respondents such as questionnaires, key informant interviews
and focus group discussion which are used as primary data, whereas secondary data
were collected from books, journals, official documents, websites, and other related
literatures. Survey questionnaires were administered for 122 sample size. Probability and
non-probability sampling techniques were used. Simple random sampling method was
employed to select sample households. Descriptive data analysis technique was applied
to analyze qualitative data through narration, while descriptive statics (standard
deviation, percentage and frequency), and regression data analysis technique were
employed for quantitative data analyses to articulate the extent impacts of independent
variable on dependent variables. The finding of the study portrayed that, socio-economic
factors, weak land delivery system, ineffective land policy implementation and unfair
land compensation are affecting the land use in the study area. Hence, it recommended
the concerned bodies (Ambo town administrative, Oromia Regional Government and
NGOS) to intervene in order to solve the raised challenges and exploit the scarce
resource (land) in manageable ways for the welfare of society.
