@article{Laloyo:334480,
      recid = {334480},
      author = {Laloyo, Stella Apecu and Tabitha, Mulyampiti},
      title = {WOMEN,LAND TENURE SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS IN AMURU  DISTRICT},
      journal = {African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences},
      address = {2022-01-01},
      number = {2367-2023-1035},
      month = {Jan},
      year = {2022},
      abstract = {Amuru district in northern Uganda has had intense land  rights violations over the past fourteen years. There have  been large scale land investments for commercial  agriculture and other activities with limited community  engagement, In many families men have sold off family land  to ‘investors’ without consultation of their wives. The  wave of commercialization and individualization of land has  negatively affected women’s tenure security and  livelihoods. This paper analyses the nexus between women’s  tenure security and livelihoods in Amuru District. The  study used an explanatory sequential mixed methods design  and a total of 159 women were reached in Amuru, Lamogi,  Atiak and Pabbo sub-counties of Amuru District. Women were  facing intense land rights struggles as communal land  tenure was losing its grip to a more individualised and  commercialised tenure system. Women’s livelihoods mainly  attained through agriculture were under threat, however  women have demonstrated agency and resilience which this  paper will document. Women have used their income to buy  land and solidify their land claims by documenting their  land jointly or independently. Women have also used their  farming groups to open up more land and their village  savings group to finance their livelihood activities that  besides agriculture include charcoal burning, trading and  brewing alcohol.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334480},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334480},
}