Linkages Between Livelihood Diversification And Changes Of Land Use Land Cover In Pastoral Regions. The Case Of The Karray Pastoral Community Oromiya Ethiopia.

This paper examines the recently growing adoption of non-pastoral livelihoodrnstrategies and its linkages with changes of land use/land cover among the Karrayurnpastoralists in Fentale Woreda, East Showa Zone. Three kebeles were selected fromrn18 rural kebeles. With a constructive combination of surveys, qualitative andrnquantitative data collection techniques for the livelihood diversification study andrnanalysis of remote sensing data by GIS framework to study the land use/land coverrndynamics.rnThe study showed that, a large portion of the current non-pastoral participation is inrnfarming, natural resource-based activities and waged labors. A host of natural andrnanthropogenic forces drive this growing pastoralist shift in to cultivation and otherrnnon pastoral livelihood system. Pastoralist activity choices reveal that access tornnatural resource and infrastructure determines how they diversify. This naturalrnresource based shift is bound to cause changes in land use/land cover in the studyrnarea. Two sets of remotes sensing data from 1986 and 2000 were analyzed to study thernland use/land cover change.rnThe findings underscore that there is an increase of farm land by 64%, which wasrn1. 9% of the total land mass in 1986 and by 2000 3.4%, where as bare rock cover hadrnincreased by 108%. On the other hand bush land had decreased by 68%, where asrngrazing land show a decrease of 19.5%.rnKey words: Pastoralism, Agro pastoralism, Karrayu, Livelihood Diversification, LandrnUse/Land Cover Changes

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