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    Gender, land rights and fragility in Northern Uganda: the case of Amuru District
    (Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, 2018) Laloyo, A.Stella
    Armed conflicts globally create social and economic shifts that affect women’s and men’s claims to land. Jacobs (2012) explains that land is crucial to the livelihoods and security of many rural women. Asiimwe (2001) and Tripp (1997) note that land rights in most parts of Africa are passed on from the male lineage and women who have lost their lineage ties through widowhood, divorce, not having sons, and separation become vulnerable and may be excluded. . This paper discusses struggles over access, control and ownership rights in relation to land among women and men in Amuru district Uganda. This article is a result of a qualitative study that conducted 10 focus group discussions with 40 women and 40 women in Pabbo, Amuru and Lamogi sub counties of Amuru Sub County and 4 focus group discussions with Area Land Committee members in the above sub counties. My findings indicate that ethnic based land tensions fostered insecurity and instability in the Amuru as people could not walk around freely, access their gardens, were displaced and this in turn affected their ability to make a living through accessing the land. I also found that many women had relational access to land through their marriage and relationship with male kin and this seemed to give them fragile land rights. Men on the other hand had firm control over land and made final decisions relating to sales and land use.
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    Women, Land tenure security and livelihoods in Amuru District, Uganda.
    (African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2021-11-02) Laloyo, Stella. A; Mulyampiti, Tabitha
    ABSTRACT Amuru district in northern Uganda has had intense land rights violations over the past fourteen years. There have been large scale land investments for commercial agriculture and other activities with limited community engagement, In many families men have sold off family land to ‘investors’ without consultation of their wives. The wave of commercialization and individualization of land has negatively affected women’s tenure security and livelihoods. Goals and Objectives This paper analyses the nexus between women’s tenure security and livelihoods in Amuru District. Methodology The study used an explanatory sequential mixed methods design and a total of 159 women were reached in Amuru, Lamogi, Atiak and Pabbo sub counties of Amuru District. Results Women were facing intense land rights struggles as communal land tenure was losing its grip to a more individualised and commercialised tenure system. Women’s livelihoods mainly attained through agriculture were under threat, however women have demonstrated agency and resilience which this paper will document. Women have used their income to buy land and solidify their land claims by documenting their land jointly or independently. Women have also used their farming groups to open up more land and their village savings group to finance their livelihood activities that besides agriculture include charcoal burning, trading and brewing alcohol.