Incidence and Impact of Land Conflict in Uganda

By K. Deininger, Raffaella Castagnini. 2004

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While there is a large, though inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of such conflicts. The authors use data from Uganda to explore who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess their impact on productivity. Results indicate that female-headed households and widows are particularly affected and that the passage of the 1998 Land Act has failed to reduce the number of pending land conflicts. The authors also find evidence of a significant and quantitatively large productivity-reducing impact of land conflicts. This suggests that, especially in Africa, attention to land-related conflicts and exploration of ways to prevent and speedily resolve them would be an important area for policy as well as research.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. A. Quisumbing
2. K. Deininger
3. D. Ali
4. Stein T. Holden
5. Cheryl R. Doss
6. G. Feder
7. C. Kovarik
8. Amber Peterman

In Political Science and International Relations

1. D. Ali
2. K. Deininger
3. G. Feder
4. T. Yamano
5. A. Quisumbing
6. Stein T. Holden

In Soil Science

1. K. Deininger
2. A. Quisumbing
3. D. Ali
4. Stein T. Holden
5. G. Feder
6. Cheryl R. Doss
7. C. Kovarik
8. T. Yamano

Citations in the corpus

• Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “…disadvantage migrants and non-nationals even if they have long-established use rights (Colin and Ayouz 2006, Fenske 2010); and (iii) discrimination against women who generally have great difficulty holding on to land in case of divorce or death of their husband (Deininger and Castagnini 2006).”
• Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: Myths versus reality: (2015, background): “…size Sampling strategy and characteristics Type of land surveyed Indicatora Further description of indicator Women Men Joint Other Data source(s) Deininger and Castagnini (2006)v Uganda (2001) 430 households (126 periurban, 304 rural) Five districts, representing Uganda's main regions.”
• Legal Knowledge and Economic Development: The Case of Land Rights in Uganda (2006, background): “…or in areas of rapid commercial expansion, and the associated increase in the number of transactions, ways of ensuring the legitimacy of land transfers and eliminate incentives for opportunistic behavior by one of the contracting parties have been shown to be critical to (Lavigne Delville 2002).”
• Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth (2007, background): “Especially given the well-documented biases against women of many traditional and customary forms of enforcing and transferring title to assets (Deininger et al., 2006; Khadiagala, 2001; Tripp, 2004; Deere and Leon, 2001), one might expect large returns in the form of increased output, productivity ”
• Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “Legal changes and land registration programs that take into account local realities and enforcement capacity can contribute to women’s social and economic empowerment (Deininger and Castagnini 2006; Joireman 2008).”
• Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia: Process, Initial Impact, and Implications for Other African Countries (2007, background): “…and end up disempowering the poor who were expected to benefit from these programs (Jansen and Roquas 1998) and that attempts to replace local institutions that functioned reasonably well with “better” ones that fail to materialize can actually increase conflict (Deininger and Castagnini 2006).”