By: Gabriella Mulligan
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: BBC News
Farming can be a tough enough business at the best of times, but imagine not being able to prove that the land you farm is even yours.
In Ghana, for example, only 10% of smallholder farmers have any kind of certificate documenting…
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By: Yasin Kakande
Date: October 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The bulldozers came after midnight, sirens wailing. Startled from their sleep, slum-dwellers on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala dashed for safety as the diggers tore…
By: Mark Keith Muhumuza
Date: October 10th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Kampala — Land owners will have to sell their land to the government if a prospecting mining company makes a discovery.
In the ongoing review of the Mining Act 2003 and Mining Policy, landowners will no longer…
By: Kizza Besigye
Date: November 8th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
OPINION
A significant portion of my 2016 presidential campaign underscored the need for immediate actions to halt the land-grabbing scourge. Land grabbing, here refers to large-scale land acquisitions, mainly, by foreign…
By: David Lumu
Date: November 10th 2016
Source: New Vision Uganda
Key among the solutions is reforming the land laws in the country to provide escape routes for Government in case land owners refuse compensation
A leading land expert has urged Government to tax idle land in urban centres as a…
By: Tom Gardner
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LAKE NAKIVALE, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nyirahubinka Maria, a Congolese refugee and mother of two, lives in "New Congo", the oldest and largest of 86 small villages scattered over the plains and low rising…
By: Sandra Ampiire
Date: November 28, 2016
Source: New Vision
According to the lands ministry, only 6% of registered and titled land belongs to women
A Bill meant to protect the rights of women and minority groups on land acquisition is in the offing.
This was revealed by the commissioner…
Date: 9 December 2016
Source:NewVision
In many of the landing sites such as Nangoma, Bulebi, Kiziru and others, residents are not allowed to re-build their grass-thatched houses for fear that they will catch fire and cause further destruction but they do not offer them any other option of…
Date: 08 décembre 2016
Source: Agence Ecofin
Par Souha Touré
Le Commissaire à l’équité et aux droits du ministère ougandais en charge des questions de genre et du développement social, Bernard Mujuni (photo), a annoncé qu’une loi protégeant les droits des femmes rurales et des minorités dans…
By: Francis Mugerwa
Date: December 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Perched on a wooden stool under a tree shade in his courtyard, Mr Eriakimu Kaseegu, props his cheek in his right palm, seeming to be in deep thought. His home is located in Kisimo Cell, Buliisa Town Council in Buliisa…
By: Francis Mugerwa
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Hoima — Fifty three families which were evicted from land to pave way for the construction of an oil waste treatment plant by a US firm in August 2014, have finally reached an understanding with the landlord to restore…