Uganda

Uganda: How land grabs are causing food insecurity
- Witness Radio
- 13 January 2023
The case of a community land rights defender in Mubende district forced to buy food for a family of 13 people for the last five years.
Uganda takes to the courts to stop land grabs and protect forests
- Reuters
- 10 January 2023
A Ugandan villager is in a three-way legal battle for ownership of land with a sugar company that wants to expand its plantations and the National Forestry Authority, which says it is part of a forest reserve.
NFA land giveaway bonanza turns Luweero farmers into destitute.
- Witness Radio
- 17 October 2022
The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs
Resisting oil palm plantations in Uganda
- WRM
- 11 October 2022
The oil palm plantations of BIDCO, a company partially owned by Wilmar, in Kalangala Island, Uganda, generated devastating impacts. But the company's plans to expand to Buvuma Island are met with organized opposition!
Zombo leaders give 10 acres of land for constructing a tea factory
- TND News
- 16 September 2022
Elite Agro of UAE starts aquiring land for tea production and processing in Uganda
A community of over 300 smallholder farmers conned as their land is sold to a local investor without their consent
- Witness Radio
- 09 September 2022
As foreign agribusinesses take over Kiryandongo communities’ fertile land, other local investors are also eyeing the remaining land occupied by the poor families in the southwestern district of Uganda to grab their land.
Canada’s development finance institution and land grabbing in Africa
- The Bullet
- 20 July 2022
Canada's Blended Finance Project interviews Witness Radio and GRAIN about the role public development banks play in facilitating land grabs around the world.
Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
- Blended Finance Project
- 26 May 2022
Interview with Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
Museveni promises to pay evictees of Kiryandongo sugar factory land
- Monitor
- 16 May 2022
President Museveni has promised to compensate residents who were evicted after he donated lands in 2017 to Kiryandongo Sugar Factory, Agilis Partners of the US, and Great Season to pave way for large-scale farming.
Uganda: 35,000 evicted residents in Kiryandongo district face starvation
- The Independent
- 27 April 2022
More than 35,000 people who were evicted from their land by multinational agribusiness companies in Kiryandongo district are on the verge of starvation.
Signs of harmful projects with financing from development institutions are spotted in Uganda
- Witness Radio
- 19 April 2022
Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.
A land grab case against Agilis Ranch 20 and 21 Limited kicks off next week
- Witness Radio
- 15 April 2022
Agilis is one of the three multinational companies that have been implicated in the land grabbing scandal which has rendered thousands of smallholder farmers homeless in the Kiryandongo district, Uganda.