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Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Rural Ugandans and Implications for Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
Abstract
Rapidly growing demand for agricultural land is putting pressure on property-rights systems, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where customary tenure systems have provided secure land access. Rapid and large-scale demands from outsiders are challenging patterns of gradual, endogenous change toward formalization. Little attention has focused on the gender dimensions of this transformation. However this contribution, based on a 2008–09 study of land tenure in Uganda, analyzes how different definitions of land ownership – including household reports, existence of ownership documents, and rights over the land – provide very different indications of the gendered patterns of land ownership and rights. While many households report husbands and wives as joint owners of the land, women are less likely to be listed on ownership documents, and have fewer 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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Metadata
- Authors
- Doss, C., Meinzen-Dick, R., & Bomuhangi, A.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (US)
- Makerere University (UG)
- Corresponding author
- Doss, Cheryl
- Venue
- Feminist Economics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-12-02
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 76-100
- ISSN
- 1354-5701 (ISSN-L)
- 1466-4372
- OpenAlex
- W2039673801
- Cited by
- 131
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 8
- FWCI
- 9.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Feminist Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- IFPRI E-brary (International Food Policy Research Institute) (submittedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (International Food Policy Research Institute) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Keywords
- land tenure, women's land rights, land grabbing, customary land tenure, titles, rural Uganda, property rights, land formalization
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