Abstract:
This study was done with the objective of examining the impacts of urbanization on the
livelihood of prephrial farming households in Hadero Town from 1989 to 2019. Subjects of
the study were 381 survey households, 16 focused group discussants and 8 interviewee.
Explanatory research design with mixed research approach was employed. Questionnaire,
interview, focused group discussion, field observation and remote sensing were used as the
data collection tools. The quantitative data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, person
correlation, binary logstic regression while qualitative data was analyzed descriptive
narration. The finding of the study showed there was high status of urbanization in Hadero
town that was ensured by remote sensing land use land cover change detection since built
up area in 1989 was 80.73ha but it increased to 539.03ha in 2019.Additionally, descriptions
of residents of Hadero town also confirmed exsistance of fast urbniztion. The causes of
urbanization in study area were rural to urban migration due to prevalence of poverty,
environmental degradation, food insecurity, lack of basic infrastructure services in rural
area while employment opportunities, natural population increase and agglomeration of
economy in urban area. Rapid urbanization increased built up areas by extremely reducing
farm land which was the base of livelihood for peripheral farming households so that their
livelihood change from rural livelihood to urban livelihood but all peripheral farming
households unable to changed their livelihood from rural to urban immediately while
education, helath , electcity and tellcomunication services improvements comes because of
urbanization.Thus,urbanization positively and negatively impacted prephrial farming
household’s livelihood in study area. Recommendation forwarded were in order to secure
livelihood of peripheral farming households in Hadero town enough reintegration program
should be designed for evicted farmers , peripheral farming households should pursuit
alternative sources of income rather than agricultural products by adjusting themselves for
newly urban livelihood.
