Farm Land Conflict and Its Socioeconomic Consequences

The main causes of farm land conflicts are building extension on private land, population growth, fragmented land and drainage. Moreover, scarce farm land, high demand for land, inheritance problem and land grabbing are other causes of farm land conflicts. Conflicting farmers do not invite and support each other in the social association and organizations. Therefore, farm land conflict terminates the social interaction of the community. Furthermore, in average one farmer needs more than one month and 2445.72 Ethiopian Birr annually to execute his/her case when the farm land conflict went to the court. Moreover, farmers loss 18.8 percent to 23.2 percent agricultural productivity because of farm land conflict. Farm land conflict hampers local and national development by mainly affecting rural agricultural productivity. The large proportion of case loads handled by the courts is farm land conflicts.