Frank F K Byamugisha

Former Lead Land Specialist at World Bank

Now Consultant, Washington DC

BBL Presentation at IFPRI PIM

Washington DC, USA

February 27, 2014

Youth Employment in AgricultureLand-Related Constraints & Solutions

Constraints: Low productivity in agriculture (yet caters for 2/3rds of rural youth

employment)

Limited access to land

Unequal land distribution and landlessness unfavorable to youth

Customary practices and tenure unfavorable to youth

Derived land rights unfavorable to long term investment

Land-related Solutions: Raise productivity of agriculture by improving tenure security over

communal and individual lands (it also helps land rental markets)

Increase youth access to land through:

Land rental (and sales) markets

Redistributing land

Social welfare to the retired as incentive to release land to the youth

Detailed Interventions

Remove controls and restrictions on land rent and rental transactions - Uganda and Ethiopia

Pilot and scale up land transfer programs - Malawi, South Africa, Brazil

Social welfare for the retired to entice land transfer to youth – Mexico

Reform laws to counter customary biases against youth land rights (land, inheritance, marriage and divorce laws) - Ethiopia

Accelerate registration of individual land rights through systematic land titling -Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar

Accelerate registration of communal land rights with allocations for youth –Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda

Increase transparency & efficiency in land transactions through decentralization, computerized LIS, and modernization of survey & mapping infrastructure -Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania

Promote strong civil society institutions to improve awareness, monitor and advocate for reforms of customs, policies and procedures that limit access to land for youth

THANK YOU