While Ugandan women are responsible for 60 percent of cash crop production and 80 percent of the production of food crops, only 7 percent of registered landowners are women. This means that Ugandan women till and toil on land that they neither own nor control. Uganda underwent a land reform exercise in the late 1990s. Women saw this as a unique opportunity to address the problem of women’s landlessness. Through aggressive campaigning and intensive lobbying, a coalition of women’s rights groups succeeded in inserting an amendment to the 1998 Land bill that guaranteed spousal co-ownership of the matrimonial home. However, through political machination, the said amendment was missing from the final version of the Act! To date Ugandan women are fighting for the reinstatement of what has come to be known as the “lost clause.” - Sylvia Tamale
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:53:50 +0000
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