THE IMPLICATIONS OF SETTLEMENT PROGRAM ON EX-PASTORALISTS’ LIVELIHOODS IN SHABELLE ZONE, ETHIOPIAN SOMALI REGION


Settlement programme in Ethiopia has been implemented, as part of the government efforts to ensure food security and bring about Rural Development (National Coalition for Food Security, 2003). The basic rational of the Settlement programme is to facilitate resource rehabilitation in central Ethiopia and to provide poor peasants with a better livelihood. This study was conducted in the Ethiopian Somali Regional State, Ber-ano district of the Shabelle Woreda, on Settlement programmes implications for settler ex-pastoralists’ livelihoods. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were applied among others being frequency distributions, tabulations, descriptive and inferential statistics such as Chi-square and Binary Logistic Regressions. Findings show that resettlement programme brought changes in settler’s livelihoods with regards to accessing basic social services such as water, health, education and plots of land in the area of destination as opposed to in their area of origin. Despite these, due to the existence of currently draught coupled with shortage of rainfall, income earned from food crops showed decreasing trends and peoples source of income tend to be from livestock husbandry as an alternative livelihood strategy. In addition, results from chi-square and binary logistic regressions showed significant associations between settler’s access to water, health, and education, plot of land and betterment of their respective livelihoods with p value of less than 0.05. This being the case, this paper will add up a lot in the gaps existing with regards to livelihoods of settled ex-pastoralists by identifying potential risks with regards to shifting from a tradition of full pastoralism to one of full settled agriculturalists. The study has made the conclusions that settled agriculturalist/settled system was more sustainable in meeting pastoralists’ basic requirements in life such as food, water, education, and health services.


Keywords


Pastoralism, Settlement program, Livelihood resources, Food insecurity.

Author : Kalid Abdırahman FARAH -Sergul Zhunusbek KYZY - Workneh NEGATU - Ali HASSAN
Number of pages: 543-565
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.22626
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