Population pressure, rural-to-rural migration and evolution of land tenure institutions: The case of Uganda

Abstract This study investigated key environmental factors causing intervillage migration by farmers. Therefore, it used household data from surveys, semistructured interviews, life histories, and focus group discussions in southwestern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The results showed that 1) when referring to the experienced historical weather and climate, farmers were aware of the effects of ongoing climate and environmental change; 2) soil degradation, land tenure insecurity, and lack of rainfall were major drivers of environment-induced migration; and 3) soil fertility, productivity, rainfall, and humidity, as well as land tenure security, were major pull factors. Farmers indirectly identified population pressure as a major driver of intervillage migration since it contributes to land degradation and land tenure insecurity. It is argued that migration implicitly adds to the natural climate and environmental stresses. When aiming to elaborate suitable land-use planning, the findings call for additional research that is needed to understand better the complex interrelationships between environmental drivers and permanent, environment-driven intervillage migration.

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Land-Related Conflict and Electoral Politics in Africa

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.758 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine Boone

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Local Level ◽

Scale Up ◽

Electoral Politics ◽

African Countries ◽

National Elections ◽

Land Conflicts ◽

Land Disputes ◽

Customary Land ◽

Land Tenure Institutions

Land-related disputes and land conflicts are sometimes politicized in elections in African countries, but this is usually not the case. Usually, land-related conflict is highly localized, managed at the micro-political level by neo-customary authorities, and not connected to electoral competition. Why do land conflicts sometimes become entangled in electoral politics, and sometimes “scale up” to become divisive issues in regional and national elections? A key determinant of why and how land disputes become politicized is the nature of the underlying land tenure regime, which varies across space (often by subnational district) within African countries. Under the neo-customary land tenure regimes that prevail in most regions of smallholder agriculture in most African countries, land disputes tend to be “bottled up” in neo-customary land-management processes at the local level. Under the statist land tenure regimes that exist in some districts of many African countries, government agents and officials are directly involved in land allocation and directly implicated in dispute resolution. Under “statist” land tenure institutions, the politicization of land conflict, especially around elections, becomes more likely. Land tenure institutions in African countries define landholders’ relations to each other, the state, and markets. Understanding these institutions, including how they come under pressure and change, goes far in explaining how and where land rights become politicized.

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Population Pressure, Land Tenure, and Agricultural Development in Southeastern Gha

Population, Ecology, and Social Evolution ◽

10.1515/9783110815603.191 ◽

1975 ◽

pp. 191-218

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Agricultural Development ◽

Population Pressure

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Population Pressure, Land Tenure, and Tree Resource Management in Uganda

Land Economics ◽

10.2307/3147226 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 76 (2) ◽

pp. 233 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

Frank Place ◽

Keijiro Otsuka

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Population Pressure

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Land tenure, population pressure, and deforestation in Haiti: The case of Forêt des Pins Reserve

Journal of Forest Economics ◽

10.1016/j.jfe.2007.02.006 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 277-289 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Frito Dolisca ◽

Joshua M. McDaniel ◽

Lawrence D. Teeter ◽

Curtis M. Jolly

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Population Pressure

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From a legal perspective to see the evolution and transformation of land tenure institutions in China

Frontiers of Law in China ◽

10.1007/s11463-009-0030-3 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 568-600 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jian Wu

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Legal Perspective ◽

Land Tenure Institutions

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The Hide and Related Land-Tenure Concepts in Anglo-Saxon England, A.D. 700 - 1100

Traditio ◽

10.1017/s0362152900011491 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 28 ◽

pp. 101-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John F. Mcgovern

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

Land Tenure Institutions ◽

The Way

The hide was a common form of land tenure in pre-Conquest England. Scanty documentation and ambiguous statements in the sources have made it difficult, however, for economic and social historians to understand the evolving meaning of hide in the period from Bede to 1100. The present study attempts to clarify some of the problems surrounding this word by a re-examination of the sources and by an analysis of terminology in land-tenure institutions related to it. The results of the investigation show that revisions in land tenure during the later Anglo-Saxon era prepared the way for the introduction of Norman methods for governing the English countryside.

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