The Land Act (1998) and Land Tenure Reform in Uganda - Juma Anthony Okuku*.
The Land Act (1998) and Land Tenure Reform in Uganda - Juma Anthony Okuku*.

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Part five is an assessment of the prospects of the Act in bringing about development in Uganda within the institutional and political context of the Land Act debate and the ambiguities embedded in the Act. [...] Under the terms of the1900 Agreement, of the total of 19,700 square miles of the land of Buganda, more than 8000 square miles, the mailo, were allocated to the king and private individuals mainly chiefs, notables, the church and the colonial state (crown land). [...] While this shortcoming has been taken care of by the various studies for the imple- mentation of the Land Act in the various districts, the starting point should have been the national dimensions of the land question. [...] The role of the state has changed in the area of management as the locus of control is shifted to the Uganda Land Commission and below it, District Land Boards and Land Committees. [...] The major concern here is the idea of appointment of the members of the Commission by the President.

Land Tenure in Uganda
Land Tenure in Uganda

Author: Uganda Protectorate. Ministry of Land Tenure

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Published: 1957

Total Pages: 40

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Study of land tenure in certain districts of Uganda - comments on bugisu customary land legislation, inheritance practices in South kigezi, the bunyoro system of land ownership, and the law of ankole concerning landlords and tenants.

Legal knowladge and economic development: The case of land rights in Uganda
Legal knowladge and economic development: The case of land rights in Uganda

Author: Klaus W. Deininger

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 33

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"Mixed evidence on the impact of formal title in much of Africa is often used to question the relevance of dealing with land policy issues in this continent. The authors use data from Uganda to assess the impact of a disaggregated set of rights on investment, productivity, and land values, and to test the hypothesis that individuals' lack of knowledge of the new law reduces their tenure security. Results point toward strong and positive effects of greater tenure security and transferability. Use of exogenous knowledge of its provisions as a proxy for the value of the land law suggests that this piece of legislation had major economic benefits that remain to be fully realized. "--World Bank web site.

Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa
Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa

Author: Birgit Englert

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1847016111

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Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.