Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Rural Ugandans and Implications for Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
基于2008-09年乌干达土地制度研究，分析不同土地所有权定义（家庭报告、所有权文件、实际权利）如何揭示性别差异，指出简单关注土地所有权文件会忽视现实并损害女性土地权益。
Rapidly growing demand for agricultural land is putting pressure on property-rights systems, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where customary tenure systems have provided secure land access. Rapid and large-scale demands from outsiders are challenging patterns of gradual, endogenous change toward formalization. Little attention has focused on the gender dimensions of this transformation. However this contribution, based on a 2008–09 study of land tenure in Uganda, analyzes how different definitions of land ownership – including household reports, existence of ownership documents, and rights over the land – provide very different indications of the gendered patterns of land ownership and rights. While many households report husbands and wives as joint owners of the land, women are less likely to be listed on ownership documents, and have fewer rights. A simplistic focus on “title” to land misses much of the reality regarding land tenure and could have an adverse impact on women's land rights.