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LEMU PSA on customary land tenure rights

Produced for the Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (LEMU), this video focuses on message "Don't sell your land, rent it" and incorporates message on protection of land rights of family members, especially women/ widows. It also encourages customary land owners to 1) plant boundary trees, 2) draw sketch maps of their land and 3) document their family land owners as means of land protection. Produced as part of the Media Collaboration Grants Award 2018, this video has been dubbed into 8 local languages and distributed in rural communities all over Uganda. Customary land is a system that 80% of mainly rural, less educated Ugandan men, women and children derive their land rights and livelihoods from. It is also a system that is misunderstood by both policy makers and citizens believing that customs does not allow women to own land. It is common practice for land that is grabbed from widows to be sold without the consent of family members and the clan. Other people sell land because of needs for medical fees, schools fees and dowry. Selling land reduces the livelihoods sustainability and inheritance land rights of children. There is therefore need to campaign for customary land owners “to plant boundary trees, draw sketch maps of their land and document their family land owners.” There is also need to campaign for land owners to “use or rent their land and to protect widows in order to protect family land”. To learn more visit: land-in-uganda.org