A section of residents in Kiyuni Parish, Gayaza Sub County in Kyankwanzi District who were last year evicted, are demanding Shs10.3b in damages from their purported landlord.
Ms Patricia Alinda.
During a meeting with evictees and local leaders on March 2, State Minister for Lands Sam Mayanja directed more than 300 of them to return to their ancestral land and prepare for the planting.
Land Security for Rural Women
January 13, 2021
By Agnes Mirembe and Sylvia Nalubega | ARUWE Uganda
Women in their rice farm securing their production for food and income. Photo by Francis Matovu, ARUWE Uganda 2019.
Nagawa, a 39-year-old farmer in Kasubi village, Gayaza Sub County in Kyankwanzi district Uganda awoke to the total destruction of her three-acre maize garden. She had received a loan of 500,000 Uganda shillings ($135) to set up her garden. The loss of food and potential income was devastating to Nagawa because she was left with no means of taking care of her five children.
Nagawa is among several farmers from the same village whose crops were destroyed due to unresolved land conflicts due to poor boundary demarcations, lack of proper registration documents and a general lack of awareness of the provisions made for citizens in the national land instruments of Uganda.