Challenges of Land Expropriatation and implementation of Compensation in Peri-Urban Areas of Hosanna Town, Hadiya Zone, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region

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.