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Land Development Schemes: Farmers’ Plight or Delight? - Cases of Sinamangal and Dibyeswori land pooling projects

Shrestha, Ramita
Master thesis
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2011
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Abstract
Rapid urbanization in the Kathmandu Valley is converting agriculture land in

urban fringes to housing needs. The conversion is taking place mostly in

haphazard manner in a self grown way and some in regulated way by land

development scheme implemented by the government. Land development

schemes as land pooling are seen in dual way; one as promoting regularised

land development contributing to housing needs and the other as threat to

arable land in the urban fringes of the Kathmandu Valley. The main stakeholder

in the land pooling process, landowners, mostly farmers are the most affected

one and it is supposed that most of the conflicts are generated during the

process due to opposition of farmers. But it is necessary to understand their

perception towards land pooling to arrive to its affect which compelled them for

taking actions. So, the research departed with the Research Question:

What are farmers’ diverse interests, objectives and actions in land development

schemes in the urban fringes of the Kathmandu Valley?

The research paper is divided into six chapters; Chapter 1: Introduction about

the problem and the cases and the research perspective. Chapter 2: Research

Methods, the chapter describes about the process of case study method

applied during field study and the analysis framework. Chapter 3: Theoretical

Framework related to the case. Chapter 4: Context, background characteristics

of the case study area. Chapter 5: Case presentation and Case Analysis

including findings and Chapter 6: Conclusions

Sinamangal land pooling project area and Dibyeswori land pooling project area

were chosen as cases. The two cases supplemented each other, Dibyeswori

case was dealt as primary case and Sinamangal case as secondary case.

Sinamangal land pooling project is already completed so the analysis in that

case was related to the impact of land pooling to the initial landowners, farmers

and the perception of new landowners/ house owners of the area towards land

pooling. The analysis was done using SWOT Analysis framework, the

government officials who were involved in the land pooling process were also

interviewed so two SWOT analyses were done based on interviewees;

i) original landowners- farmers and the new residents of the area and ii)

government officials.

The primary case, Dibyswori land pooling project is in stalled condition due to

opposition from majority of farmers considering it as threat to their arable land.

The project work halted due to conflict situation. The conflict has various

dimensions so the Conflict Analysis Framework (CAF) was used to understand

the various dimensions of conflict and the conflict generating factors. The

analysis was carried out to contribute in making recommendations for mitigating

conflict situation in Dibyeswori land pooling area and the possibility of land

development schemes for fulfilling housing needs to be taken positively by the

farmers so that the case shall be presented as model for urban fringes

development and conservation of arable land.

The study revealed the underlying reasons and the involvement / role of

different interest groups, actors in the conflict generation in the project. The

issue was not related to only landowners/ farmers and government agencies; it

unfolded its link up to political situation, power relations and the inability of land

development initiatives to fulfil the long term vision of the area. The discrepancy

between the development vision of Madhyapur Thimi Municipality and the

proposed plan of Dibyeswori illustrated the current development practice which

is incapable to address the local needs, context, tradition and culture of the area

which would lead to unsustainable form of development.
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