Abstract:
Urban sprawl is a universal phenomenon taking place all around the world,that involve both
vertical and horizontal expanding in urban areas. In Ethiopia, although its level was the
lowest even among other under developed nations, its rate, however,was the highest and made
a country one of twenty-three countries experiencing fast urbanization in the World. As a
matter of this fact, Durame town is one the urban settings experiencing unprecedented rate of
urbanization through sprawl. Hence, the main purpose of this study was to investigate the
urban sprawl and its effects on the peripheral farming households: the case of Durame town,
Kembata Tembaro Zone, Southern Nation Nationalities and Peoples Regional State, Ethiopia.
To achieve the objective of this study, image of Land-sat 5 TM for (1991,2001,2011,2021) and
Land Sat 8 OLI as main input and processed using ERDAS IMAGINE, for the accuracy of
classified and land use land cover(LULC) maps of a confusion matrix was used to drive the
change of detection analysis results show that from 1991-2021,due to the urban sprawl. This
study was conducted by using descriptive research design with a mixed method research
approach. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used. Also Both Quantitative and
qualitative data were collected from survey households were analayzed in the form of
frequency and percentage by using SPSS, the sample size was selected by Simple random
sampling techniques that of, 293 out of 1091 total population with considering the level of
acceptable margins of error at (5%) and (95%) confidence interval. Statistically, dependent
variable was affected by a change in the independent variables. Binary logistic regression
model was useful where the dependent variable was dichotomous. Consequently,the
compensation was not mostly wisely managed by the society as well by the town and
stakeholders institutions. Generally,the finding of this study indicates that,LULC change of
detection from 1991-2021, the built-up land areas were increased by 9% in 1991, 11% in
2001,16% in 2011 and 33% in 2021 respectively. Therefore,this study was concluded that,
there were policy and strategy gaps of expropriating, urban sprawl and compensation should
be revised both in kind and amount involving rehabilitation support for affected households in
ground implementation and further skill oriented training for new livelihood strategies,
government should have revised the land use policy that could gave as a decision making for
urban land use planning.
