With population growth, poor households are continuing to subdivide ancestral land and individual plots are getting smaller as well as less productive, family land wrangles, land grabbing, illegal evictions and many other forms of dispossession have become a common practice in Uganda leading to increased inequality. Land is generally handed down from father to son. If a man has no sons, his brother, nephew or another male relative will inherit. Women are legally allowed to buy land, but few have the necessary resources. Women typically have only temporary rights over land, linked to their relationship with their father or husband. The lower social status of women, due to deep-rooted cultural attitudes, means they have more difficulty than men in enforcing land rights. The Land sector actors held a talks how on one of Uganda’s TVs on building consensus on registration of customary tenure rights.

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