Differential Livelihood And Adaptive Strategies Of Spontaneous And Organized Resettlers In Guraferda Woreda Of Southwestern Ethiopia (snnpr)

This study attempted to explain the dynamic livelihood and adaptive strategies of thernspontaneous and state-organized resettlers in Gurafarda Wӓrӓda. The study area since 2001 hsrnexhibited demographic and economic changes. The changes took place due to the populationrninflux from Amhara region and SNNPR (South, Nation, Nationalities and Peoples region) in arnspontaneous and organized manner of resettlement respectively. The study has taken in tornaccount the intra-regional organized and the inter-regional spontaneous resettlers’ as subjectrnof study and their livelihood and adaptation strategies as variables. In the livelihood strategies:rnland acquisition, land holding, labour recruitment, production, live stalk rearing, socioeconomicrnand religious institutions and their role were dealt.rnThe study, so as to collect the abovementioned data, administer the combination of observation,rninterview: formal and informal, survey using questionnaire, case studies from spontaneous,rnorganized and the host Me’enit community and document analysis. The mixed data collectionrnmethod was employed to suit to the dynamics of the schemes and to collect as diverse data asrnpossible.rnThe data collected indicated that the resettlers have engaged different approaches in order tornfit to the local environment. Their livelihood and adaptive strategy helped the spontaneousrnresettler to benefit from the richness of the local physical environment and gainedrnimmeasurable economic benefit than the organized resettlers. The organized resettlers thoughrnnot as the spontaneous resettlers, have social and economic enhancement compared to theirrnhome of origin. The failure is due to the diverse ethnic composition in the new area, inability tornrecruit potential resettlers and inefficient management. This differential economic growth of thernspontaneous and organized resettlers had never been without challenges. In this case, as of therneconomic and social differential attainments, they recorded difference in conflict within andrnwithout the resettling community. The organized resettlers, though they have mild ethnicrntensions among the same type but differing ethnicity, are better peaceful within and localrncommunity than the spontaneous resettlers. The spontaneous resettlers encountered deadlyrnconflicts with their fellow resettlers of the same type, the local people due to land and relatedrnissues and with the local political authorities due to difference in political interests. The landrntenure, acquisition and labour recruitment and social organizations differences contributedrnparamount role for differential socio-economic development in the resettlement schemes.rnBoth resettlement schemes particularly the spontaneous, engaged in deforestation. The landrncovered by crops increased from year to year. The unceasing influx of population seeking forrnfarmland has devastating effect on the forest and the natural resource in general. The forest forrnthe indigenous Me’enit community is everything where their livelihood is dependent on.rnBoth schemes exhibited differential success and failures in economic, social and environmentalrnaffairs. The effect of the resettlement had not been only the forest resource of the area but alsornon the host Me’enit community.rnKey Words: Resettlement, Organized resettlement, Spontaneous Resettlement, LivelihoodrnStrategies, Adaptive strategies

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