Urbanisation and its effects on agricultural lands, economic and social impact: a case study of Juaben Municipality
| dc.contributor.author | Niang, Ronarld Massamba | |
| dc.contributor.author | ||
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-29T12:06:33Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-19T04:10:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-29T12:06:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-19T04:10:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-06-29 | |
| dc.description | A thesis submitted to the Department of Construction Technology and Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Award Degree of Master of Science in Project Management. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Farming lands are most pretentious by the fast growth and its occupations of a plea. Land use for housing, manufacturing, and culture have the tendency to control farmlands in the proposition for space in the city place. To understand the trend of urbanization and the socio-economic effects on farmers in the Juaben Municipality necessitated this study. The aim of the study was to identify means of improving the planning and management of land-use changes in Juaben municipality. Similarly, the study focused on finding out effects of land uses changes in the agricultural land use, the socio-economic impacts those changes have on farmers and the planning and management strategies deployed to mitigate the problem. The study adopted questionnaire and semi-structured interview as the research instrument to gather data from 90 respondents which comprises of registered farmers, Town, and Country Planning in the Juaben Municipality through a survey and interview secessions. Results from the study identified effects of land-use changes on agricultural land use. These include farm lost and small farm sizes, increase in the cost of land, cultivation of nonperennial crops, decrease in livestock farming, job loses, food insecurity and as well as decrease in productivity of agrarian activities. Also, the economic and social effect of land-use changes on farmers identified included reduction in the income of farmers, high prices of foodstuffs, high cost in farming, high fees for accommodation, lost of interest in farming, purchasing food from commercial suppliers, societal rejection of the farming business, difficulties in adapting to the new social life imposed on them and declined in deteriorating living conditions. It was evident in the results obtained from the study that, the authorities in the Municipality were pulling down structures built on unauthorized land, issuing of building permit to check development and rezoning areas to suite the current land-use changes. But the Authorities were lacking the legal power to restrict lands demarcated for agricultural activities to be used for human settlement unless it poses danger to live and properties. In conclusion, a substantial amount of land changes has occurred in the Juaben Municipality which has led to farm lost and the socio-economic life of the farmers in the Municipality is not encouraging as well as less effective mitigation responses from management to curtail the rapid land-use changes. It is recommended that the government and the other stakeholders should come together to develop the legal framework that will prevent landowners to sell lands which are not properly surveyed and planned by the Municipal Assembly and also impose more severe sanctions to help check rapid land uses changes in the Juaben Municipality. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | KNUST | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/14190 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Land Use Change | en_US |
| dc.subject | Urbanization | en_US |
| dc.subject | Spatial Planning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Socio-Economic Effects | en_US |
| dc.title | Urbanisation and its effects on agricultural lands, economic and social impact: a case study of Juaben Municipality | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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