CHAPTER 12

Land rental Markets

and Land Management

Evidence from Uganda

EPHRAIM NKONYA, JOHN PENDER,

SAMUEL BENIN, AND EDWARD KATO

imageganda has implemented innovative economic and agricultural reforms, making the country one of the showcase studies in Africa (Dijkstra and van Donge 2001). In the case of land markets, Uganda’s Land Act of 1998 is one of the few land laws enacted in Africa with an objective of giving land users full ownership and rights in order to promote a more secure and free land market. This is contrary to the land policies in many African countries where the land is owned by the government and the land operators are given only ...

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