Determinants of Land Management Practices: The case of Ambo Town

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.