Abstract:
Urban sprawl in Africa and other developing countries occurred and has occurred through
encroachment on fertile farmland. As a result, close to millions of people were displaced
every year. So the principal objective of this research was to assess the challenges of land
expropriatation and implementation of compensation in peri-urban areas of Hosanna town,
to achieve the objective of the study, a cross-sectional research design. The research
approach design was a mixed research approach (a combination of both qualitative and
quantitative) approaches and, data were collected by using interviews and questionnaires In
this research, both primary and secondary data sources were used. To pick samples from the
target population, a simple random sampling technique was used. Accordingly, 329 sample
household heads were picked from 1864total households in the town. Regarding key
informant interviews, a purposive sampling technique was utilized to pick up key informants.
Descriptive and Inferential of data analysis were employed. The major findings of the study
show that the amount of payment and the time it takes to compensate the landholders, to
assess the existing law of compensation for expropriation, to examine the status of valuators
and land methodology of valuation, and to identify the challenges that the landholders faced
after the expropriation of their land pre-urban land in Hosanna town.
Furthermore, the tools like SPSS MS EXCEL and doing descriptive statsticmainly percentage
table and figures, was used to analyze data and to find out soft waerout put for fair
compensation land in Hossana town. In conclusion, in all aspects, the result indicated that
the prevalence of low in come among evicted farmers. Therefore, stackholders should design
strong strategies to prevent the impact of unfair compensatation from peri-urban farmers. A
separate department should be established which follows and provide training on time, agest
the valuation method and clear compensationpayments.
