Legal Knowledge and Economic Development: The Case of Land Rights in Uganda

By K. Deininger, D. Ali, T. Yamano. Land Economics, 2006

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Although many African countries have recently embarked on revisions of their land legislations to give recognition to customary arrangements and strengthen women’s rights, few studies assess the actual or potential economic impact of such steps. We use data from Uganda to assess the impact of tenure regime, perceived transfer rights, and legal knowledge on investment, productivity, and land values. While results support strong and positive investment-impacts of tenure and transferability, knowledge of the new law’s provisions adds considerably to these, pointing towards substantial potential from disseminating the law that has not yet been fully realized. (JEL Q15, K11)

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers (2010, background): “certificates were issued after public registration for transparency (Deininger et al. 2007). The land certificates included maps and pictures of husband and wife.(2) Holden, Deininger, and Ghebru (2007) argue that land certification had a greater impact on women’s participation in the land market be”
Engendering Agricultural Research, Development, and Extension (2012, background): “There were no significant differences between male- and femaleheaded households in the probability of undertaking such conservation measures, controlling for other factors (Deininger et al. 2008). In related work in Ethiopia, Kumar and Quisumbing (2010) find that the presence of female members on th”
Gender and Sustainability (2014, background): “(111) find that households’ awareness of their land rights as defined by the 1998 Uganda Land Act, which strengthened tenure security and legal protection of customary owners and women, increased the propensity to undertake SCTs.”
Do overlapping property rights reduce agricultural investment ? evidence from Uganda (2007, unknown): “Although neither guidelines nor funds for its operation have been made available, expectation of government intervention in the land market has already led to significant rises in selfassessed land prices (Deininger et al. 2006).”
Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia: Process, Initial Impact, and Implications for Other African Countries (2007, background): “High demand for low-cost means of boundary demarcation in Uganda, where more than 90% of households wanted to get a certificate, and 87% were willing to pay (Deininger et al. 2006a), points in the same direction.”
Engendering agricultural research (2010, background): “Deininger et al. (2008) found that households’ awareness of their land rights as defined by the 1998 Uganda Land Act, which strengthened tenure security and legal protection of customary owners and women, increased the propensity to undertake soil conservation measures.”
Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “In Uganda, for example, laws to augment security of customary rights had the desired impact only when individuals knew about them; but such awareness was very limited (Deininger, Ayalew, and Yamano 2008).”
Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries 1 (2013, background): “The general finding that land reforms have little impact on investment and productivity may have to do with a lack of information about newly awarded rights (Deininger et al. 2008).”