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Title: THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUALISATION ON COMMON GRAZING LAND RESOURCES IN UGANDA

Date Published: 1995
Author/s: Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa
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Affiliation: Makerere Institute of Social Research and the Land Tenure Center
Keywords: Grazing Uganda
Pasture, Right of Uganda
Natural resources, Communal Uganda
Range management Uganda
Privatization Uganda
Hima (African people) Land tenure Uganda
Karamojong (African people) Land tenure Uganda

Abstract:

The study was to establish the extent of individualisation of communal grazing land rights and assess
its impact on pastoral communities and the rangeland interms of accessibility, socio-economic
equity, stability and levels.. of investment. It was carried out among the Bahima and Karimojong
within the cattle corridor of Uganda.
A two stage simple cluster sampling was applied using enumeration areas of the 1991 population and
housing census as a sampling frame. A sample of 524 HH was selected using random sampling and
stratified iI1 three. population density (PD) zones.by Subcounties. Data was· collected through
household head interviews using a questionnaire. Categorical data analysis of two-way dimensional
contingency tables, and one-way and two-way analysis of variance were used to test the hypotheses.