Investigating the possibilities for a Public-Private-Partnership led land inventory self-financed by coffee farmers in Mityana District, Uganda

Introduction

•83% of global population of 8.5 billion will be living in developing countries by

2025 (United Nations, 1992, p. 125)

•Agricultural production needs to increase by 70% by 2050 in order to feed the

world (GPFI, 2011, p. 6)

•Three-quarters of the world’s poor live in the rural areas of developing countries

and 80 % depend on agriculture (GPFI, 2011, p. 6; Hill, 2006, p. 1; GDPRD,

2008, p. 2)

•Rural poverty rates are more than double to those in urban areas GDPRD

(2008, p. 2)

•Approximately 60% derive their livelihood and income from farming, livestock

production and related activities (African Union, 2009, p. 21)

•60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land in Africa

•Over 80% of Uganda’s population employed under the agricultural sector,

contributing 85 % of export earnings (CIA, 2011; Bosworth, 2003, p. 234)

Purpose of the study

The possible role of Public-Private-

Partnerships (PPPs) in land

information recordation was the major

focus of the study. The study aim was

to investigate whether and how an all-

encompassing land information

recordation could support decision

making processes leading to the

subsequent granting of agricultural

credit for farming in-puts to coffee

farmers in Kakindu sub-county,

Mityana District, Uganda.

Overall Objective

•To establish whether a PPP–led, self-

financed, up-to-date and

comprehensive land inventory could

contribute to improved agricultural

productivity in Mityana District.

Specific Objectives

1. To establish whether a self-

financed, up-to-date and

comprehensive land inventory

supports availability and affordability

of alternative agricultural credit for

individual coffee farmers in Mityana.

2. To determine whether self-financed,

up-to-date and comprehensive land

inventory data can be used to

support formal recognition of land

holding rights in Mityana.

3. To find out whether PPP

arrangements can be harnessed to

set up a self-financed, up-to-date

and comprehensive land inventory

in Mityana.

4. To recommend solutions regarding

self-financed, up-to-date and

comprehensive land inventorisation.

Hypothesis (H1)

The utilization of PPPs to undertake

self-financed, up-to-date and

comprehensive land inventories

contributes to improvements in

agricultural productivity.

a) Systematic and comprehensive

inventory approach to intermediate

land rights, restrictions and

responsibilities recordation.

b) Self-financed inventorisation without

state financing.

c) Community representative extension

workers for a systematic inventory

d) Fool-proof digital form that is easy to

fill.

e) Subsequent leases and sales from

rightful landlords or their heirs.

f) Bottom-Up Approach flexible enough

to capture detail unique to any given

locality.

g) Geo-referencing and not digitizing

existing land records.

h) PPP to enable provision of data for

the necessary decision making

regarding award of occupation

certificates, titles, dispute resolution

et cetera.

i) PPP to enable provision of data for

assessing farmers’ credit worthiness.

j) Capacity building for State agencies

and financial institutions.

k) Inventorised data to enable

establishment of whether or not,

where there exists unclaimed or

vacant land.

l) Community level discussion of land

issues including land values, land tax,

access roads, fragile ecosystems,

preferred tenure type(s).

m) Emergence of a registration culture.

Master‘s Thesis by DANIEL KIRUMIRA KIBUUKA (Uganda)

BULERA

MAANYI

BUSIMBI

SSEKANYONYI

KIKANDWA

KAKINDU

MALANGALA

BUTAYUNJA

MITYANA TC

Population Density

Persons per Sq Km

N

KM0 6 12

118 - 123

124 - 156

157 - 175

176 - 207

208 - 1778

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

No of farmers

Size of parcels in hectares

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

1 2 3 4 5

No of Farmers

No of Parcels held

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

Ownership since

Period of buildingconstruction

Problem statement

•Growth of Uganda’s agricultural sector in is below the National Development

Plan annual growth target of 5.6% (The Republic of Uganda, 2010, p. 78)

•7.5m people still live in absolute poverty (DFID, 2011)

•Only 18% have registered titles or certificates of ownership (Ahene, 2009, p. 3)

•Land records are manually managed and in very poor state (Ahene, 2009, p. 3)

•Agricultural finance is inaccessible to rural inhabitants

Methodology

•Kakindu Coffee farmers

•Topcon positioning equipment,

Cartogoo software, Google Earth

•MsExcel

•ArcGIS

•Workshop and focus group discussion

Conceptual Framework

Field findings and Analyses

•Geo-coordinates of identified markstones in the field

•Overlay of field spatial data onto geo-referenced existing

cadastre sheet

•Period of parcel acquisition and building construction

•Number of parcels held

•Acreage of parcels held

•Basic partners for a self-financed land inventorisation

•Uganda Land Inventorisation flow chart and next steps

Recommendations and Conclusions

Recommendations are made based upon analysis of field findings, workshop and

focus group outputs as well as SWOT, STEEPLED and STAKEHOLDERS

analyses of the Mityana District Land sector as follows:

i. To establish whether or not various

financial institutions would utilise the

land inventory data.

ii. To establish whether or not farmers

without a specific agricultural produce

focus or those that are not part of any

association would utilise inventory

documentation to access agricultural

credit and negotiate lease or sales

agreements.

iii. To establish whether rural inhabitants

would adopt a registration culture.

iv. To find out whether or not the land

inventory methodology can be

replicated elsewhere.

v. To establish whether the state

agencies would use the land

inventory data for varied land

management activities.

vi. To establish the compatibility of

inventory data with data gathered

using other land recordation

methods.

vii. To find out the time required to

establish a fully functional land

inventory system.

‘Ensuring the rural poor have the

necessary tools to build better lives for

themselves and their children is a crucial

step towards halving the proportion of

people living in extreme poverty by 2015’

(United Nations, 2008, p. 15).

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Source: Mityana District (2008, p.5)

Recommendations on land inventorisation

Suggestions for further research