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Uganda Economic Update, February 2015

The Growth Challenge--Can Ugandan Cities Get to Work?

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
February, 2015
Uganda, Africa
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
agriculture
land markets
land policies
land use
urban areas
urbanization
This Fifth Edition of the Uganda Economic Update presents evidence that if the urbanization process is well managed, it has the potential to stimulate economic growth and to provide productive jobs for a greater proportion of Uganda’s young and rapidly expanding population. In many countries across the world, the growth of cities has stimulated the establishment and expansion of productive businesses by reducing the distance between suppliers and customers. The growth of cities has also facilitated provision of social services and infrastructure through economies of scale.
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Uganda Economic Update, February 2015

April, 2015
Uganda
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
agriculture
land markets
land policies
land use
urban areas
urbanization
This Fifth Edition of the Uganda
Economic Update presents evidence that if the urbanization
process is well managed, it has the potential to stimulate
economic growth and to provide productive jobs for a greater
proportion of Uganda s young and rapidly expanding
population. In many countries across the world, the growth
of cities has stimulated the establishment and expansion of
productive businesses by reducing the distance between
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Incidence and Impact of Land Conflict in Uganda

June, 2013
Uganda
Land & Investments
agriculture
farmers
land tenure
land use
property rights
tenants
land grabbing
land policies
While there is a large, though
inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in
Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of
land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of
such conflicts. The authors use data from Uganda to explore
who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal
changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess
their impact on productivity. Results indicate that
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Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the East African Highlands: Conclusions and Implications

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Uganda
land policies
agriculture
land management
The studies in this book sought to understand the factors affecting rural households’ choice of income strategies and land management practices and the implications of these decisions and of policy- and program-relevant factors for agricultural production, household welfare, and land degradation. We noted at the outset that the factors influencing these decisions and outcomes are many and complex and that their effects may be very context-dependent in a region as diverse as the East African highlands. The findings in the preceding chapters amply support this hypothesis.
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Influences of Programs and Organizations on the Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Technologies in Uganda

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Uganda
land policies
agriculture
land management
Governments are devolving service and infrastructure provision, regulatory authority, and decisionmaking in many developing countries. Market reforms and structural adjustment policies devolve the provision of services and infrastructure to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and the private sector (Farrington and Bebbington 1993; Uphoff 1993; Pender and Scherr 2002).
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Conceptual Framework and Hypotheses

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Uganda
land policies
agriculture
land management
In this chapter we introduce the conceptual framework that underlies the case studies presented in this book and discuss hypotheses about the effects of key factors on community and household decisions concerning income strategies and land management. We also discuss the influence of such decisions on outcomes such as agricultural production, household income, and land degradation (or improvement). This chapter is adapted from Scherr et al. (1996); Pender, Place, and Ehui (1999); Pender, Scherr, and Durón (2001); and Nkonya et al. (2004).
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Community Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Uganda
land policies
agriculture
land management
Common property resources1 are important sources of timber, fuelwood, and grazing land in developing countries. When community members have unrestricted access to the resource, or when use regulations are ineffective, these resources are exploited on a first-come, first-served basis. Each individual user of the resource will tend to continue to use the resource until her average revenue is equal to the marginal cost of using the resource (Gordon 1954).
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Development Pathways in Medium- to High-Potential Kenya: A Meso-Level Analysis of Agricultural Patterns and Determinants

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Uganda
land policies
agriculture
land management
The highlands of East Africa have been endowed with a combination of moderate temperatures, adequate rainfall (falling in two distinct seasons for much of the highlands), and productive soils that make the region one of the best suited for agricultural development in all of Africa. As a consequence, the area has a long history of human habitation and supports some of the highest rural population densities in Africa (Hoekstra and Corbett 1995; Pender, Place, and Ehui 1999).
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Zero Tillage or Reduced Tillage: The Key to Intensification of the Crop?Livestock System in Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Uganda
land policies
agriculture
land management
Numerous methods are available for increasing crop and livestock production in the Ethiopian highlands. Both national and international research institutes have developed technologies that are technically appropriate for these conditions. Examples of such technologies are the broad-bed maker for vertisols and cow traction (Zerbini, Woldu, and Shapiro 1999) and use of a single ox to pull the plow (Ouwerkerk 1990). However, farmers’ adoption of these technologies has been very limited, and farming is still characterized in most areas by low input use and limited use of improved technologies.
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Policies and Programs Affecting Land Management Practices, Input Use, and Productivity in the Highlands of Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2006
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Uganda
land policies
agriculture
land management
Increasing agricultural productivity is an important challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Since the 1960s, agricultural production in SSA has failed to keep up with population growth.