DEFINITION OF THE LAND QUESTION IN UGANDA

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1.2.1 Overview

4.Land is a highly volatile and political issue, and its control continues to be a critical factor, of growing importance in Uganda’s development. A number of scattered policies do indeed exist on various aspects of the land question, but these are diverse, sectoral and inconclusive in many respects. This policy, therefore, seeks to consolidate the different aspects of scattered policy that define the land question in Uganda, which often defy legislative norm, to offer politically palatable and technically conclusive answers to support land sector reforms.

5.Post-independence and recent attempts to settle the land question in the form the Land Decree 1975, the 1995 Constitution of Uganda, and the Land Act 1998 failed to deal with the fundamental issues underlying land tenure relations in Uganda with entirety. The primary reason for this was not simply that the Constitution had set the parameters for the new land law. It was also because no clear policy principles existed to inform legislators in the enactment of that law, a situation that the national land policy must rectify. Therefore, in this policy key issues touching on (1) historical injustices and colonial legacies, (2) contemporary issues, mainly arising from such legacies; and specifically, (3) land use and land management issues are squarely addressed.