Uganda

The index below offers access to a diverse collection of land-related publications and resources related specifically to this country, which have been classified by contributing organizations.

Country land legislations

Treaties, laws and regulations on land and soil extracted from FAOLEX

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Access to Roads Act 1969 (Cap. 350).Date of entry: 15 Jul 2010, Last edit: 19 Jul 2010
Administration of Estates (Small Estates) (Special Provisions) Act 1972 (Cap. 156).Date of entry: 15 Jul 2010, Last edit: 19 Jul 2010
Administration of Estates by Consular Officers Act 1940 (Cap. 154).Date of entry: 15 Jul 2010, Last edit: 19 Jul 2010
Administration of Estates of Persons of Unsound Minds Act 1951 (Cap. 155)Date of entry: 15 Jul 2010, Last edit: 22 Jul 2010
Distress for Rent (Bailiffs) Act 1933 (Cap. 76).Date of entry: 22 Jul 2010, Last edit: 26 Jul 2010
Estates of Missing Persons (Management) Act 1973 (Cap. 159).Date of entry: 22 Jul 2010, Last edit: 27 Jul 2010
Expropriated Properties Act 1983 (Cap. 87)Date of entry: 26 Jul 2010, Last edit: 30 Jul 2010
Historical Monuments Act 1968 (Cap. 46).Date of entry: 26 Jul 2010, Last edit: 30 Jul 2010
Land Acquisition Act 1965 (Cap. 226).Date of entry: 04 Aug 2010, Last edit: 17 Aug 2010
Land in Buganda (Provisional Certificates) Act 1922 (Cap. 228).Date of entry: 04 Aug 2010, Last edit: 06 Aug 2010
Mortgage Act (Cap. 229).Date of entry: 06 Aug 2010, Last edit: 09 Aug 2010
Registration of Titles Act 1924 (Cap. 230).Date of entry: 09 Aug 2010, Last edit: 18 Aug 2010
Succession Act 1906 (Cap. 162).Date of entry: 09 Aug 2010, Last edit: 19 Aug 2010
Survey Act 1939 (Cap. 232).Date of entry: 09 Aug 2010, Last edit: 19 Aug 2010
Surveyors Registration Act 1974 (Cap. 275).Date of entry: 09 Aug 2010, Last edit: 19 Aug 2010
Town and Country Planning Act 1951 (Cap. 246).Date of entry: 09 Aug 2010, Last edit: 20 Aug 2010
Judicature (Administration of Estates) Rules (S.I. 13-7).Date of entry: 10 Jan 2013, Last edit: 11 Jan 2013
Administration of Estates (Small Estates) (Special Provisions) (Probate and Administration) Rules (S.I. 156—1).Date of entry: 10 Jan 2013, Last edit: 11 Jan 2013
Administration of Estates of Persons of Unsound Mind (Procedure) Rules (S.I. 155—1).Date of entry: 10 Jan 2013, Last edit: 11 Jan 2013
Guidelines on the management of river banks and lake shores.Date of entry: 23 Jan 2004
Soil Conservation Measures and Guidelines.Date of entry: 23 Jan 2004
Guidelines on the management of hilly and mountainous areas.Date of entry: 23 Jan 2004
National Environment (Standards for Discharge of Effluent into Water or on Land) Regulations, 1999 (S.I. No. 4 of 1999).Date of entry: 04 Feb 2004, Last edit: 27 Aug 2005
Development Loans Fund Act 1967 (Cap. 234).Date of entry: 22 Jul 2010, Last edit: 23 Jul 2010
Emergency Powers Act 1968 (Cap. 297).Date of entry: 22 Jul 2010, Last edit: 26 Jul 2010
National Enterpise Corporation Act 1989 (Cap. 312).Date of entry: 06 Aug 2010, Last edit: 09 Aug 2010
Uganda Development Bank Act 1972 (Cap. 56).Date of entry: 23 Aug 2010, Last edit: 26 Aug 2010
Water Statute, 1995 (Statute No. 9 of 1995).Date of entry: 26 Mar 1996, Last edit: 14 Jan 2013
Land Act (No. 16 of 1998).Date of entry: 11 Apr 2000, Last edit: 04 Aug 2010
Reconstruction and Development Corporation Act, 1981 (No. 5 of 1981).Date of entry: 30 Dec 2004, Last edit: 01 Aug 2005
National Environment (Minimum Standards for Management of Soil Quality) Regulations, 2001 (S.I. No. 59 of 2001).Date of entry: 04 Feb 2004, Last edit: 21 Jan 2013
Land Act (Cap. 227).Date of entry: 04 Aug 2010, Last edit: 19 Feb 2013
Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act 1985 (Cap. 150).Date of entry: 09 Aug 2010, Last edit: 17 Aug 2010
National Environment Statute, 1995 (Statute No. 4 of 1995).Date of entry: 02 Sep 1997, Last edit: 12 Jun 2006
National Environment (Mountainous and Hilly Areas Management) Regulations, 2000 (No. 3 of 2000).Date of entry: 23 Jan 2004
National Environmental Management Policy.Date of entry: 13 Jul 2004, Last edit: 28 Jan 2013
Pacte sur la sécurité, la stabilité et le développement dans la Région des Grands Lacs.Date of entry: 19 Mar 2013, Last edit: 19 Mar 2013
African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Revised version).Date of entry: 12 Aug 2004, Last edit: 08 Dec 2007
All results from FAOLEX

FAO Land publications

Extracted from the FAO Corporate Document Repository

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Land evaluationYear of Publication: 2007
Emergency in Ituri, DRC: Political complexity, land and other challenges in restoring food securityYear of Publication: 2003
Standardizing land cover mapping for tsetse and trypanosomiasis decision makingYear of Publication: 2008
Eastern and Anglophone Western Africa Regional Assessment for the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and Other Natural ResourcesYear of Publication: 2010
The adoption and impact of improved maize and land management technologies in Uganda Year of Publication: 24/5/2005
Farmer field schools on land and water management in AfricaYear of Publication: 2008
Land access in rural Africa:Strategies to fight gender inequalityYear of Publication: 2008
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food SecurityYear of Publication: 2012
Foodcrops and Shortages - No. 2 May 2004Year of Publication: 2004
Foodcrops and Shortages - No. 3 October 2005Year of Publication: 2005
Forest resources and institutionsYear of Publication: 1998
Improving tenure security for the poor in AfricaYear of Publication: 2006
International Conference on Domestication and Commercialization of Non-Timber Forest Products in Agroforestry SystemsYear of Publication: 1996
Introduction to Image Analysis in ArcView 3 – Land Cover Changes in the Rwenzori Mountains 1973-2005 - ManualYear of Publication: 2011
NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS IN AFRICA: A REGIONAL AND NATIONAL OVERVIEWYear of Publication: 2001

IFPRI Land Publications

Recovered from the IFPRI e-brary

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Determinants of nutrient balances in a maize farming system in eastern UgandaYear of Publication: 2004
Development pathways and land management in UgandaYear of Publication: 2004
Development pathways and land management in UgandaYear of Publication:
Land rental markets and land managementYear of Publication: 2008
Linkages between land management, land degradation, and poverty in Sub-Saharan AfricaYear of Publication:
Linkages between land management, land degradation, and poverty in Sub-Saharan AfricaYear of Publication:
Linkages between poverty and land management in rural UgandaYear of Publication:
Policies for improved land management in UgandaYear of Publication:
Policy options for increasing crop productivity and reducing soil nutrient depletion and poverty in UgandaYear of Publication:
Racing the Millennium: development goals in UgandaYear of Publication: 2005
Strategies for sustainable land management and poverty reduction in UgandaYear of Publication:
Strategies for sustainable land management and poverty reduction in UgandaYear of Publication:
Strategies for sustainable land management in the East African HighlandsYear of Publication:
Strategies to increase agricultural productivity and reduce land degradation in Uganda: an econometric analysisYear of Publication: 2006
Strategies to increase agricultural productivity and reduce land degradation: evidence from UgandaYear of Publication: 2004
The critical triangle relationship between the diversity of wetlands utilization, the enhancement of agricultural productivity, and food security in UgandaYear of Publication:
Uganda: income strategies and land managementYear of Publication:
Uganda: policies for improved soil nutrient management, output marketing survey, 1999-2000Year of Publication: 2005
Who knows, who cares?Year of Publication:
Who knows, who cares?Year of Publication: 2008

IDS LAND PUBLICATIONS

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Welfare effects of market friendly land reforms in UgandaDate of entry: 2011
Uganda’s environment and natural resources: enhancing parliament’s oversightDate of entry: 2010
Modes of land access and welfare impacts in UgandaDate of entry: 2009
Civil society and the struggle for land rights for marginalised groups: the contribution of the Uganda Land Alliance to the Land Act 1998Date of entry: 2000
Private and communal property rights in rangeland and forests in UgandaDate of entry: 1998
Pastoralist harmonisation initiative: second international meetingDate of entry: 2001
When neighbours become killers: ethnic conflict and communal violence in Western UgandaDate of entry: 2007
Landlessness within the vicious cycle of poverty in Ugandan rural farm households: why and how it is born?Date of entry: 2007
A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, UgandaDate of entry: 2006
Handheld GPS equipment for agricultural statistics surveys: experiments on area measurements done during fieldwork for the Uganda Pilot Census of Agriculture, 2003Date of entry: 2005
Land policy: its importance and emerging lessons from Southern AfricaDate of entry: 2000
Natural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areasDate of entry: 2003
People in motion: an entitlements approach to Karimojong agro-pastoralismDate of entry: 2003
Strategies to increase agricultural productivity and reduce land degradation: evidence from UgandaDate of entry: 2002
Documentos
[18/06/2013] Corridors pour la croissance agricole en Afrique et la Nouvelle Alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition: Qui en bénéficie, qui perd?
Ce bref rapport examine comment les gouvernements, les institutions financières internationales et les sociétés mondiales collaborent dans de nouveaux projets en Afrique (actuellement au Mozambique...
Documentos
[18/06/2013] African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Who benefits, who loses?
This brief report looks at how governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in Africa (currently in Mozambique and Tanzania) to...
Noticias
[29/05/2013] East Africa: Scholars Want EAC Land Tenure System Harmonised
Scholars from member states of the East African Community have called for the harmonisation of land tenure system is within the regional bloc. The call was made on Monday dons from different EAC...
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[22/05/2013] Land Grabbing for Palm Oil in Uganda
“Wilmar International, one of the largest oilseeds corporations in the world is developing palm oil plantations in biodiverse islands off the coast of Lake Victoria, Uganda. The project is a...
Eventos
[17/05/2013] Appropriations foncières à grande échelle et recompositions des territoires -
“Journée d’animation thématique Dans le cadre du programme MSH « Gouvernance foncière et développement durable au Sud ». Appropriations foncières à grande échelle et recompositions...
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[16/05/2013] LANDac short-term research project report: Land grabbing and its effects on the communities in the oil rich Albertine Region of Uganda
This report is in relation to a study on the Land Tenure and Livelihood Issues in the Albertine Graben Region. The study was carried out in three districts of Amuru Buliisa and Hoima. The study...
Noticias
[25/04/2013] "Face the fire when it comes, but also drink the cool drink when it flows"
“Here in Antigua, Guatemala, at the bi-annual meeting of the International Land Coalition, there is no shortage of talks, spanning the urgent land rights issues in this Central American country...
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[02/04/2013] The Role of the Uganda Investment Authority in Facilitating Investor Access to Farmland: Policy, Practice and Possible Reform
“This study aims to help decision-makers better understand the process through which investors acquire farmland outside the protected estate in Uganda and any potential risks associated with...
Documentos
[29/03/2013] Governance and Livelihoods in Uganda’s Oil-Rich Albertine Graben
“According to the key findings, he majority of the communities in the Albertine Region are unhappy with the oil companies operating there. When asked if they were “satisfied with the...
Noticias
[21/03/2013] Storify: Political Economy conference 2013
“During the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa conference, participants have been sharing information, comments and links with each other and the outside world over social media...
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