[01] Erneste Nsangabandi, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Lay Adventists of Kigali (UNILAK), Kigali, Rwanda. [02] Angelique Mukantagwabira, Department of Project Management, University of Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda.

Urbanization in Rwanda is characterized by demographic growth and by migration to urban areas. The increase of many infrastructures in the development is the main aspect which takes the agricultural land in order to get the places for construction [7]; this study was conducted in Musanze city which is located in Northern Province [3]. The data were used were the data covering Musanze, Muhoza, Kimonyi and Cyuve sectors and were analyzed using Arc GIS and Microsoft excel and this helped in generating maps, tables and figures. The results obtained revealed that the area occupied by the infrastructures of urbanization in 2008 was 13.893654 km² in all sectors and it has increased up the area of 27.971287 km² in 2018 this means that there are big quantities of agricultural land that lost from 96.594 km² to 82.514 km² and with this loss the agricultural land were caused by the rate of urbanization growth of 1.41 km²/year [4]. It is recommended that the district should organize special agriculture campaigns about the good use of land and its effects on agricultural land; it is recommended to improve a strong collaboration between people and its stakeholders [15]; it is also recommended to mobilize the population and other stakeholders to construct the multi-storey buildings instead of many single houses which are occupying many spaces which were reserved for agriculture.

Musanze City, Urban Expansion, Agriculture Land Loss, Agriculture Land

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