Uganda
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5 Julio 2021
The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated land governance challenges, including addressing failures in land governance systems, a lack of transparency, systemic corruption, and lack of accessibility to data. It undermines development progress on global food security and has driven people into poverty, while…
2 Julio 2021
This session zoomed in on the local situation and challenges faced by grassroots communities and women in some low-Income countries. It provided an overview of support provided by Civil Society organizations (and governments) facilitating communities, women in particular, to step up the efforts to…
Challenges for women’s land tenure in customary law settings: Country Insights Digest #2 - June 2021 ()
22 Junio 2021
Securing women’s land rights remains high in the news and in the development agenda in recent months. A quick search on Land Portal shows since March this year more than 250 resources related to land & gender, including news articles, blogs and publications.
A number of events and webinars…
“Land is Now the Biggest Gun”: Climate Change, Conflict, and the Telling Case of Karamoja, Uganda ()
11 Mayo 2021
Whether and how climate change drives conflict has driven considerable debate over the past decade. Yet understandings of climate-conflict remain general, and in many respects, unsettled. A recent assessment of potential future directions for climate-conflict research highlights the need to go…
3 Mayo 2021
Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Yet, there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property rights are widely used in the literature. Each captures a different aspect of women’s land rights,…
14 Marzo 2021
El cambio climático está poniendo en peligro los sistemas agrícolas en toda África, pero muchas mujeres emprendedoras están utilizando la ciencia para mejorar su resiliencia
Por: Sara Moraca
Antes de salir de casa, Julianne siempre consultaba el pronóstico del tiempo para ver si era mejor…
20 Enero 2021
Land technology is moving at warp speed. How will the Biden administration and Samantha Power ensure women benefit?
Today Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. The change of administration will bring radical shifts in the United States’ foreign and domestic policy and…
17 Julio 2020
Por Marcos Candido
A agricultora Maria Josefa costuma dizer que mora "no meio do mato", rodeada por um pomar colorido pelos tons alaranjados dos pés de acerola e cacau cultivadas por ela na comunidade Tancredo Neves, em São Félix do Xingu, no Pará. Lá a telefonia não chega, e até 2017 não havia…
23 Noviembre 2019
This blog is a summary of a paper that assesses the effectiveness of a specific land tenure intervention to improve the lives of women, by asking new questions of available project data sets.
Customary tenure is the predominant land tenure system in Uganda. About 80% of Uganda’s land is held under…
17 Noviembre 2019
Local communities manage a significant portion of the world’s remaining forests, pastures, and fisheries as common property resources, but they are rarely recognized as formal owners. Important progress has occurred during the last twenty years, as growing evidence suggests that devolving rights to…
6 Noviembre 2019
“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like…
5 Noviembre 2019
Considering that land tenure security is crucial to better outcomes for women it is a surprise that there is not more evidence out there on what works to achieve it.
That is why we launched the Research Consortium: to start to bridge that gap by supporting new research on what works to improve…