Assessment of the land inventory approach for securing tenure of lawful and bona fide occupants on private Mailo land in Uganda

Moses Musinguzi, Thorsten Huber, Daniel Kirumira and Pamella Drate

Land Use Policy, 2021, vol. 110, issue C

Abstract: The co-existence of overlapping land rights is an issue of concern as countries strive to secure land tenure rights for improving land productivity. Whereas considerable research has been directed to overlapping rights on customary land, there is limited research on the solutions to overlapping land rights between registered landowners and unregistered occupants. The Mailo tenure in Uganda, which is a case of a century-old impasse between registered owners on one hand and legally recognized unregistered occupants on the other hand, has resisted both political and legislative-based solutions. Yet Mailo tenure accounts for about 20 % of Uganda’s land, including the capital city, major influential towns and high value land.

Keywords: Private Mailo; Land inventory; Overlapping land rights; Occupancy rights; Fit-For-Purpose; Uganda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104562

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