Utilization of Natural Resources and Conflict? The Case of Choke Mountain Watersheds, East Gojjam, Ethiopia

Abstract

Responsible administration and feasible use of regular asset and condition makes powerful strides towards advancing or making social, monetary, and political dependability and safeguarding the normal welfare of the nation. This paper assesses the land use system and identified Couse of conflict issues on bases of natural resource utilization, management and governance. A cross-sectional survey design was employed in this study. Questionnaire survey, key informant interview, focus group discussion, field observation and secondary data sources, were utilized to generate the data required for the analysis. Both qualitative and quantitative analysis approach, descriptive analysis and analytical technique like chi-square tests were employed to analyze the data. Finding of the research shows that, the land was used for different purpose such as: grazing land cultivation land and forest land. However due to lack of governance in the research area there were conflict among society to use those natural resources and conflict were arise on grazing land, forest land and cultivation land. These all things lead to unsustainable use of natural resource. These problems happened mainly because of natural resource utilization problem by the community, natural resource management and governance problem by the government are considered as a major factor.