Dynamics of women’s Secure Land Rights for Sustainable Rural household Food Security in Uganda
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Date
2021
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Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS)
Abstract
Food security is a major concern of a global agenda as reflected in the UN Post 2015
Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations, 2000, 2016). Globally more than 2 billion
people are food insecure and this situation is on the rise and has turned into a crisis especially
in Sub Saharan Africa. Uganda which was the focus of this paper has had multiple food
crises in various regions at different times. Isingiro district where this chapter is situated has
been experiencing food crisis in recent times. Women who are the main producers of food
lack secure land rights to enhance food production. The goal of this study was to explore how
women’s secure land rights can be strengthened to enhance sustainable rural household food
security in Uganda. Our methodology was largely qualitative. We interviewed 102
respondents including local women, local leaders and key informants. We held three focus
group discussions one in each sub-county where we collected data from. Our findings
indicate that women have limited land rights with regard to control of land, but majority of
them have access rights but with minimal decisions on what to produce. Our findings
indicated that barriers to women to secure land rights are from institutional as well as lack of
enforcement of the legal frameworks in place. Owing to the sensitivity of land ownership
and patriarchal nature of Ugandan societies, Isingiro district in particular, we therefore
concluded that secure land rights for women can be strengthened through active sensitization
of both men and women on the value of women’s rights to land and its implication on
sustainable rural household food security.
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Land Rights, Women, Rural Households, Food Security
Citation
Milton, R., & Roberts, M. K. (2021). Dynamics of women’s Secure Land Rights for Sustainable Rural household Food Security in Uganda. Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS)