Land-use and land-cover changes and their drivers in rangeland-dependent pastoral communities in the southern Afar Region of Ethiopia

Mekuyie, Muluken; Jordaan, Andries; Melka, Yoseph

doi:10.2989/10220119.2018.1442366

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“…As a percentage, the cropped area in Afar increased by a factor of four (431%) and in Gambella by a factor of three (292%) with large area increases in Oromia (790,000 ha), SNNPR (440,000 ha), BG (313,000 ha), Somali (263,000 ha), and Amhara (253,000 ha) (Map 5.3 and Table 5.2). These trends are generally in agreement with recent studies covering a similar time frame (Degife et al, 2018), but this contrasts with some recent research such as Mekuyie et al (2018) who looked at land use change in southern Afar for a similar period and found a declining trend for cultivated land. 70 Spatially, much of the lowland cropland expansion appears to have taken place along the escarpment, transitioning from highland to lowland (Map 5.3).…”

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“…A recent study comparing household economy changes between 2003/06 and 2013/15 in Somali region similarly reports a decline in household herds by 25 percent between the two reference years (HEA, 2018). A study conducted in Borana area also shows that the average livestock holding per household decreased by 37% over 17 years prior to 2001, mainly due to drought (Mussa, 2004). It appears that this has been a trend since the 1960s, especially in Borana.…”

Section: Decline In Household Herd Sizementioning

confidence: 97%

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Poverty and Vulnerability in the Ethiopian Lowlands

2019

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This chapter provides a description of the key features of pastoral livelihoods in the drought-prone lowlands. The chapter documents a long-term decline in household herd sizes, a shift in the composition of herds, and a growing economic diversification, including an increase in cropping, and an increase in wealth inequality. Livestock, however, continue to be an important source of income for many households. This has been buoyed by the high prices that livestock command in the market. However, as livestock assets have reduced susceptibility to poverty, the result of shocks has also increased.

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Poverty and Vulnerability in the Ethiopian Lowlands

2019

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“…These changes have serious socioeconomic and environmental impact on rural livelihoods in many regions of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) [12]. In some parts of the SSA region, population growth, high poverty levels, settlements, fuelwood, charcoal production, and agricultural expansion were reported as contributory factors for LULC changes [13][14][15][16][17][18]. More research with regard to location, nature, magnitude, extent, and rate of land-use and land-cover dynamics is still required in the context of SSA, where high population growth coupled with infertile land and overexploitation of other natural resources such water and forests is prevailing [19].…”

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Local Perception of Drivers of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Dynamics across Dedza District, Central Malawi Region

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Research on Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) dynamics, and an understanding of the drivers responsible for these changes, are very crucial for modelling future LULC changes and the formulation of sustainable and robust land-management strategies and policy decisions. This study adopted a mixed method consisting of remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS)-based analysis, focus-group discussions, key informant interviews, and semi-structured interviews covering 586 households to assess LULC dynamics and associated LULC change drivers across the Dedza district, a central region of Malawi. GIS-based analysis of remotely sensed data revealed that barren land and built-up areas extensively increased at the expense of agricultural and forest land between 1991 and 2015. Analysis of the household-survey results revealed that the perceptions of respondents tended to validate the observed patterns during the remotely sensed data-analysis phase of the research, with 57.3% (n = 586) of the respondents reporting a decline in agricultural land use, and 87.4% (n = 586) observing a decline in forest areas in the district. Furthermore, firewood collection, charcoal production, population growth, and poverty were identified as the key drivers of these observed LULC changes in the study area. Undoubtedly, education has emerged as a significant factor influencing respondents’ perceptions of these drivers of LULC changes. However, unsustainable LULC changes observed in this study have negative implications on rural livelihoods and natural-resource management. Owing to the critical role that LULC dynamics play to rural livelihoods and the ecosystem, this study recommends further research to establish the consequences of these changes. The present study and future research will support decision makers and planners in the design of tenable and coherent land-management strategies.

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“…In land change research, some scholars used the simulated cellular automata model to explore the problems [35][36][37][38]. Muluken Mekuyie used remote sensing, field observation, focus group discussions, and semistructured interviews to analyze trends in land-use and land-cover changes and their drivers in the period from 1985 to 2015 [39]; Pan et al used stochastic greedy algorithm to study the urban structure and land-use model of Chicago [40]; Boavida-Portugal et al developed a cellular automata (CA) model to provide a LUCC modeling approach to explore the impacts of tourism development on built-up areas [41]. Ahmadi et al used a GIS software package and analytic hierarchy process to analyze the land suitability of Hormuz Island, and the findings clearly show land suitability for industrial, agricultural, and tourism land-use development [42].…”

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Spatial Complex Morphological Evolution and Influencing Factors for Mountain and Seaside Resort Tourism Destinations

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Spatial restructuring of tourism destinations is important not only for optimizing the spatial structure but also for promoting its sustainable development. This study adopted participatory rural assessment (PRA), GIS spatial analysis, and Google Earth remote sensing images as the main research methodology. The case studies of mountain resort destination, Huangshui Town, and seaside resort destination, Jinshitan, were analyzed. The study contributes to complex morphological evolution from the perspectives of external structure expansion and internal function reconstruction, revealing the spatial characteristics and explaining the influencing factors. The results showed that (1) in the process of tourism development, these two places have experienced large-scale growth of construction land and expansion of spatial scope. The external spatial structure of Huangshui Town is concentrated in the center and is scattered outward, changing from the form of a strip to a radiating pattern and finally to clusters. The spatial layout of Jinshitan has shifted from scattered to concentrated, changing from scattered to a strip along the coastline. (2) In particular, the internal functional structures of the two places have transitioned from a single residential function to a multicomposite function that integrates accommodation, dining, and entertainment. Among them, Huangshui Town is an “axial belt + group type” structure, and Jinshitan is a “wave type” structure. (3) The results also showed that natural factors such as traffic, terrain, rivers, lakes, and coastlines and anthropogenic factors such as government intervention and community participation are the main factors affecting the evolution of the spatial form of tourism destinations. The two tourist destinations in the study represent mountain resort type and coastal resort type, thereby showing that the spatial structure evolution model has certain typicality and representativeness.

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Land-use and land-cover changes and their drivers in rangeland-dependent pastoral communities in the southern Afar Region of Ethiopia

Cited by 25 publications

References 40 publications

Poverty and Vulnerability in the Ethiopian Lowlands

Poverty and Vulnerability in the Ethiopian Lowlands

Local Perception of Drivers of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Dynamics across Dedza District, Central Malawi Region

Spatial Complex Morphological Evolution and Influencing Factors for Mountain and Seaside Resort Tourism Destinations

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