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Dr. Abebaw Gedefaw
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

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0 Land Consolidation
0 land cover and land use change dynamics
0 Remote sensing & GIS applications
0 Remote Sensing & Gis, Image Processing And Analysis
0 Land Certification

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Journal article
Published: 30 October 2020 in Land
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Economic theory notes tenure security is a critical factor in agricultural investment and productivity. Therefore, several African countries’ development initiatives enabled land titling to enhance tenure security. This paper examines the effect of land certification on tenure security, land investment, crop productivity and land dispute in Gozamin District, Ethiopia. In addition, the impact of land certification on farm households’ perceptions and confidence in land tenure and land use rights is investigated. Face-to-face interviews with 343 randomly selected farm households, group discussions and expert panels are the sources of primary data. Quantitative data are analyzed using various statistical tools and complemented by qualitative data. According to the results, most farm households (56%) feel that their land use rights are secure after the certification process. Only 17% fear that the government at any time could take their land use rights. The majority of farm households (71.7%) identified a reduction of disputes after certification and land management practices improved from 70.3% before certification to 90.1% after certification. As key factors for the increase of terracing and the application of manure, the study determined total farm size, the average distance from farm to homestead, perception of degradation, access to credit, training to land resource management, fear about land take-over by the government and total livestock holdings. Crop productivity improved significantly after land certification. The results should encourage policy makers to minimize the sources of insecurity, such as frustrations of future land redistribution and land taking without proper land compensation. Land certification is the right tool for creating tenure security, enhancing farmers’ confidence in their land rights and—supported by a proper land use planning system—improving land-related investments and crop productivity.

ACS Style

Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw; Clement Atzberger; Walter Seher; Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu; Reinfried Mansberger. Effects of Land Certification for Rural Farm Households in Ethiopia: Evidence from Gozamin District, Ethiopia. Land 2020, 9, 421 .

AMA Style

Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw, Clement Atzberger, Walter Seher, Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu, Reinfried Mansberger. Effects of Land Certification for Rural Farm Households in Ethiopia: Evidence from Gozamin District, Ethiopia. Land. 2020; 9 (11):421.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw; Clement Atzberger; Walter Seher; Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu; Reinfried Mansberger. 2020. "Effects of Land Certification for Rural Farm Households in Ethiopia: Evidence from Gozamin District, Ethiopia." Land 9, no. 11: 421.

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Published: 02 June 2020 in Sustainability
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Land cover patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly changing. This study aims to quantify the land cover change and to identify its major determinants by using the Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact, Responses (DPSIR) framework in the Ethiopian Gozamin District over a period of 32 years (1986 to 2018). Satellite images of Landsat 5 (1986), Landsat 7 (2003), and Sentinel-2 (2018) and a supervised image classification methodology were used to assess the dynamics of land cover change. Land cover maps of the three dates, focus group discussions (FGDs), interviews, and farmers’ lived experiences through a household survey were applied to identify the factors for changes based on the DPSIR framework. Results of the investigations revealed that during the last three decades the study area has undergone an extensive land cover change, primarily a shift from cropland and grassland into forests and built-up areas. Thus, quantitative land cover change detection between 1986 and 2018 revealed that cropland, grassland, and bare areas declined by 10.53%, 5.7%, and 2.49%. Forest, built-up, shrub/scattered vegetation, and water bodies expanded by 13.47%, 4.02%, 0.98%, and 0.25%. Household surveys and focus group discussions (FGDs) identified the population growth, the rural land tenure system, the overuse of land, the climate change, and the scarcity of grazing land as drivers of these land cover changes. Major impacts were rural to urban migration, population size change, scarcity of land, and decline in land productivity. The outputs from this study could be used to assure sustainability in resource utilization, proper land use planning, and proper decision-making by the concerned government authorities.

ACS Style

Abebaw Gedefaw; Clement Atzberger; Thomas Bauer; Sayeh Agegnehu; Reinfried Mansberger. Analysis of Land Cover Change Detection in Gozamin District, Ethiopia: From Remote Sensing and DPSIR Perspectives. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4534 .

AMA Style

Abebaw Gedefaw, Clement Atzberger, Thomas Bauer, Sayeh Agegnehu, Reinfried Mansberger. Analysis of Land Cover Change Detection in Gozamin District, Ethiopia: From Remote Sensing and DPSIR Perspectives. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (11):4534.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Abebaw Gedefaw; Clement Atzberger; Thomas Bauer; Sayeh Agegnehu; Reinfried Mansberger. 2020. "Analysis of Land Cover Change Detection in Gozamin District, Ethiopia: From Remote Sensing and DPSIR Perspectives." Sustainability 12, no. 11: 4534.

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Published: 12 October 2019 in Land
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In many African countries and especially in the highlands of Ethiopia—the investigation site of this paper—agricultural land is highly fragmented. Small and scattered parcels impede a necessary increase in agricultural efficiency. Land consolidation is a proper tool to solve inefficiencies in agricultural production, as it enables consolidating plots based on the consent of landholders. Its major benefits are that individual farms get larger, more compact, contiguous parcels, resulting in lower cultivation efforts. This paper investigates the determinants influencing the willingness of landholder farmers to participate in voluntary land consolidation processes. The study was conducted in Gozamin District, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The study was mainly based on survey data collected from 343 randomly selected landholder farmers. In addition, structured interviews and focus group discussions with farmers were held. The collected data were analyzed quantitatively mainly by using a logistic regression model and qualitatively by using focus group discussions and expert panels. According to the results, landholder farmers are predominantly willing to participate in voluntary land consolidation (66.8%), while a substantive fraction of farmers express unease with voluntary land consolidation. The study highlighted the following four determinants to be significant in influencing the willingness of farmers for voluntary land consolidation: (1) the exchange should preferably happen with parcels of neighbors, (2) land consolidation should lead to better arranged parcels, (3) nearness of plots to the farmstead, and (4) an expected improvement in productivity. Interestingly, the majority of farmers believes that land consolidation could reduce land use conflicts. The study provides evidence that policymakers should consider these socio-economic, legal, cultural, infrastructural, and land-related factors when designing and implementing voluntary land consolidation policies and programs.

ACS Style

Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw; Clement Atzberger; Walter Seher; Reinfried Mansberger. Farmers Willingness to Participate In Voluntary Land Consolidation in Gozamin District, Ethiopia. Land 2019, 8, 148 .

AMA Style

Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw, Clement Atzberger, Walter Seher, Reinfried Mansberger. Farmers Willingness to Participate In Voluntary Land Consolidation in Gozamin District, Ethiopia. Land. 2019; 8 (10):148.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw; Clement Atzberger; Walter Seher; Reinfried Mansberger. 2019. "Farmers Willingness to Participate In Voluntary Land Consolidation in Gozamin District, Ethiopia." Land 8, no. 10: 148.