摘要：Agriculture in towns, cities and the area surrounding them is the main phenomenon of most of developing countries. Likewise he residents of Harar has been involved in agricultural activities thus producing agricultural products in a small scale and it is this reliance of the town’s population on urban agriculture as employment option that served as a basis for this study. The study has the main objective of examining the role that urban agriculture plays in creating employment opportunity, the problems it faces and the solutions for it. The study relied in the primary and secondary data. The primary data is collected from the respondents who are residents of the Harar town and which are 110 in number and used interview and questionnaire method for its collection. The major advantage of urban agriculture was seen as its potential to improve the socio-economic situation of the poor. The study found that urban agriculture has a high potential to serve as a source of employment for the unemployed ones but the income and the security of the job is not that significant enough for the majority to completely rely on it. The socio-economic benefits of Urban Agriculture in the study area are wintry different from what it has in the city. It creates 110 employments for households’ heads and benefits 1133 members of their family. There are also some restraints such as Lower provision of working space and modern inputs, Lower and sometimes no supply of funds, lack of close support and communication with government and private supporting institutions and other problems that limit the ability of urban agriculture in creating a dependable employment opportunity
关键词：Urban; Peri-Urban; Agriculture; Land use; Employment
