Assessing the Impacts of Urban Expansions on Peri Urban Farmers‟ Livelihood Assets in Sebeta Sub City, Shagar City in Oromia, Ethiopia

Abstract

Urban expansion is inevitable phenomenon for a country to develop. If not properly planned and implemented it has impacts on peri urban local farmers. Hence, this study was aimed at assessing its impacts on Sebeta Sub City’s livelihood assets of peri-urban farmers. Descriptive statistics research design and qualitative and quantitative research approaches were used. Methods used in LULC assessment were downloading satellite images, classifying them using supervised classification by means of objective based Classification means, detection of LULCCs of three consecutive periods (1992-2004, 2004-2012 and 2012-2022), conducting classification accuracy assessment, computing annual rate of change of LULCC, analyzing the data and LULC maps generation. To assess socioeconomic data sample size determination, employing purposive and random sampling technique, collection of primary and secondary data, organizing, analyzing and interpreting them were methods used in the study. The results were satellite images of Landsat of four years 1992, 2004, 2012 and 2022 were downloaded and classified into 8 major LULC classes