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Balancing Development and Community Livelihoods: A Framework for Land Acquisition and Resettlement in Uganda

A Study of Communities Affected by Conservation in Kibaale District; Oil Development and Road Infrastructure in Hoima District; and Hydro Electric Power Development in Buikwe District of Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2016
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
co-ownership rights
collective ownership
community land rights
use rights
Land acquisition for development projects by government, private investors and land speculators is a critical source of tensions and conflicts in many parts of Uganda. Following the discovery of commercially viable oil reserves in 2006, Uganda turned attention to extractives and oil development as a matter of national priority. Evidence of this assertion can be found in the recent 2016-17 national budget allocations, where the portion for oil development is substantial.
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LAND TENURE, BIODIVERSITY AND POST-CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN ACHOLI SUB-REGION

Resolving the Property Rights Dilemma

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2009
Uganda
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
advocacy
This paper presents the results of a study on property rights in land and biodiversity resources in the Acholi Sub-region. The objective of the study was to map out the changes that have taken place in the sub-region since the dawn of colonialism and how these changes have impacted on the contemporary property rights structure in land and biodiversity resources in the sub-region.
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ESCAPING THE OIL CURSE AND MAKING POVERTY HISTORY

A Review of the Oil and Gas Policy and Legal Framework for Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2006
Uganda
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
eviction
extractive industries
land use
natural resources management
poverty
rural areas
state forests
territory
In this oil research paper, we have set out the challenges confronting oil producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa by giving case studies of Nigeria, Angola and Equatorial Guinea. We have also critiqued the draft National Oil and Gas Policy under formulation as well as the legal framework. We argue that the oil Dutch Disease and conflict nexus associated with oil producing countries are not a given since there are examples such as Norway which have utilised their oil revenue for transformation and sustainable development.
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Socio-Economic Effects of Chinese Agricultural Investments on the Environment and Local Livelihoods in Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2016
Africa, Uganda
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
agrarian reform
agricultural land management
agriculture
agroforestry systems
capital value (land)
collateral (land)
community land rights
farmland
forest land
The nature and significance of China's engagements with African agriculture continues to be hotly debated in the media, academia and policy circles around the world. Although China has been engaged in Uganda’s agriculture for more than 40 years, the recent jostle for agricultural land by private Chinese investors is dystifying and justifies the need to conduct a scientific study to provide clear evidence before the issue gets bundled into the messy anecdotal media inquiry.
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The Theoretical and Legal Foundations of Community-Based Property Rights in East Africa

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2005
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
co-ownership rights
collective ownership
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
legal empowerment
property rights
Indigenous, mobile, and local communities all over the world have for millennia played a critical role in conserving the earth’s patrimony. They have protected forests, wetlands, rangelands, watersheds, hunting grounds, rivers and streams and other water catchment systems that are to day the basis of prosperity for all nations. “Community” husbandry of these resources has been done for a wide range of reasons ranging from economic, cultural, spiritual, aesthetic to many others.
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Living on the Margins of Life

Living on the Margins of Life; The Plight of the Batwa Communities of South Western Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2006
Uganda
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
advocacy
agrarian reform
alienation (land)
common property
common rights
compulsory acquisitions
eviction
The meaning and scope of the concept of Community-Based Property Rights (CBPR) has become a dominant feature of conservation and development policy discourse over the last decade. The debate has largely been shaped by the growing trends where governments have continued to appropriate traditional lands for conservation and development activities that have resulted into large scale dislocation and widespread disenfranchisement of sections of our society.
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COMMUNITY LAND JUSTICE IN UGANDA

TOWARDS MEANINGFUL HARMONISATION

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2014
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
adjudication
advocacy
co-ownership rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
land
land administration
Uganda’s northern region was traditionally inhabited by communities with predominantly pastoral lifestyles. As the country began developing administrative structures in the region, most clans found themselves settled into agro-pastoral communities. The elders found it imperative to demarcate areas of land to fit different uses, with areas for family settlement and cultivation clearly separated from other areas for communal use. Land was either demarcated by the leaders of a particular settlement or by the dominant clan for the benefit of everyone else in that area.
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Karamoja Sub region Uganda

Communal Land Associations claim compensations for investments in their territory

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2016
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
communal ownership
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
customary law
land access
Since Karamoja is richly endowed with gold, marble, iron ore, tungsten, limestone, oil and gas, it has attracted many investors, in particular since the protracted armed conflicts in northern Uganda started fading away. Approximately 1 7,000 km2 or 62% of the total land area of Karamoja has been licensed for mineral exploration and exploitation (Kabiswa, 2014).
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Land Policy and the Evolving Forms of Land Tenure in Masindi District, Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 1992
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
communal ownership
customary land rights
customary tenure
freehold
land
land administration
This paper examines the evolution and the nature of the current forms of land tenure in Masindi District and the extent to which these forms impair or facilitate positive socio-economic changes. Such an examination is vital in light of the fact that there exists no convincing empirically grounded studies on the impact of the official land policies on the relationships between forms of land tenure, social structure and agricultural production.
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Does customary tenure have a role in modern economic development?

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2010
Uganda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
agrarian reform
common property
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
land
land administration
Over 80% of all land in Uganda is held under unregistered ‘customary tenure’. This means that it is private property, but the owners need no documents to prove ownership. Their claims to the land, and the boundaries of the land, are locally recognised, and this recognition is given the full protection of State law.