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Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Rural Ugandans and Implications for Land Acquisitions

Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Rural Ugandans and Implications for Land Acquisitions

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Date of publication
November 2011
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ISBN / Resource ID
mokoro:5911

Includes key concepts for understanding land rights; land tenure and women’s property rights in Uganda; land acquisition in Uganda; who owns the land? Perspectives from the local level. Analyses how different ways of defining landownership provide very different indications of the gendered patterns of landownership and rights. Although many households report that husbands and wives jointly own the land, women are less likely to be listed on ownership documents, especially titles, and women have fewer land rights. A simplistic focus on title to land misses much of the reality regarding land tenure and could have an adverse impact on women’s land rights.

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