Land use/land cover changes and its drivers in Shekayboru area of Chifra District in Afar Region, Ethiopia

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Abstract For long-term land management, understanding the scope, direction, and agents of LULC change, as well as their configuration across geographical and temporal dimensions, is essential. This study looked at the patterns and extents of LULC change in Chifra District's Shekayboru Area for that aim. Landsat imagery from TM and ETM+ (2009/10) and OLI were used to investigate the dynamics of LULCC (2015 and 2020). A hybrid method was used to categorize the LULC maps for each period using the results of supervised classification and intense on-screen-digitizing approaches. Three major LULC types (vegetation, cultivation, and bare lands) were identified, with overall accuracies ranging from 91.3 to 100%. According to the 2009/10 LULC classification map, bare lands had the highest area coverage (around 87%), while in 2015 and 2020, both vegetation and cultivated lands showed increment trends of 26 and 28 percent (2015), and 29 and 44 percent (2020), respectively, and bare lands showed decrement trends of 46 and 28 percent, respectively. The study area's Focus Group Discussions and interviews further revealed that, as a result of the water spreading weir, vegetation and cultivated fields have increased over time, and local villagers have taken up maize farming. Better soil and water conservation methods may be responsible for the increase in plant cover. The outcomes of this study will help design future soil and water conservation measures in response to sustainable land management. According to the researcher, a study of soil fertility, quality, and moisture content should be conducted in the future.

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