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    Food systems under stress (FSUS) project FSUS/PRA workshop – Tanzania Magindu Village, Kibaha District, 23-25 August 1993.
    ( 1994-04) Kauzeni, A.K. ; Kiwasila, Hilda ; Mabanga, Faustin ; Ngana, James ; Pottier, Johan ; Sikana, Patrick
    Magindu village lies within the Coastal Region and is situated 25 km south of Chalinze (about 45 minutes by car along a sandy track) just beyond the intersection with the Central Railway Line. The village is inhabited by Wakwere and Kutu cultivators (90) %) and Maasai cattle keepers (10%). Magindu's history can be summed up as one of consecutive droughts and people moving in and out of the area. Al though drought occurs periodically, rainfall is not necessarily a limiting factor, and can go up to 800 mm a year. The soils, however, are not very deep. (Dodoma is much drier, but a lot of aid and research is already focused on that region). In 1990-1991 Magindu suffered terribly in the drought, which was so severe that it put Magindu on the political map. Ministers visited the area.
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    Individualization of common wetlands in Uganda and the role of changing economic opportunities: a case study of Igogero Wetland, Iganga District
    ( 1996-03) Kizito, Christopher M.K. ; Nsubuga, Edward
    Issues of ownership and management of communally used natural resources are becoming a growing concern in East Africa. Many Countries are in the process of analyzing and formulating policies in regard to tenure and sustainable management of these common property resources. In the case of Uganda, a number of factors including social, economic and political ones, have greatly affected the existence and state of these resources in the recent past. Changes in these factors have often resulted in the emergence of different local tenure systems in different wetland areas in Uganda.
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    Individualization of common wetlands in Uganda and the role of changing economic opportunities: a case study of Igogero Wetland, Iganga District
    ( 1996-03) Kizito, Christopher M.K. ; Nsubuga, Edward
    Issues of ownership and management of communally used natural resources are becoming a growing concern in East Africa. Many Countries are in the process of analyzing and formulating policies in regard to tenure and sustainable management of these common property resources. In the case of Uganda, a number of factors including social, economic and political ones, have greatly affected the existence and state of these resources in the recent past. Changes in these factors have often resulted in the emergence of different local tenure systems in different wetland areas in Uganda.
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    Settlement and resettlement experience from Uganda’s National parks, game reserves and forest reserves
    ( 1994) Marquardt, Mark A
    In Uganda the need for and justification of population resettlement has risen from a number of aspects related to the country’s economic setting. The existence of agricultural land of high potential but low population densities; settlement on land cleared of tse tse infestation as a mechanism to prevent resurgence of the fly; forced or persuaded movement of people from areas of high population densities.
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    Settlement and resettlement experience from Uganda’s National parks, game reserves and forest reserves
    ( 1994) Marquardt, Mark A
    In Uganda the need for and justification of population resettlement has risen from a number of aspects related to the country’s economic setting. The existence of agricultural land of high potential but low population densities; settlement on land cleared of tse tse infestation as a mechanism to prevent resurgence of the fly; forced or persuaded movement of people from areas of high population densities.
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    Voluntarism and nature conservation in Uganda
    ( 1996) Ken-Lukyamuzi, John
    It is honourable for one to be a volunteer or to volunteer to do anything. But before one volunteers to do anything one usually has to bother to find out the nature of voluntary work to be done and possibly where that work is to be performed. Not many people would certainly volunteer to hang in the way Honourable Brutus did after hanging Julius Casar.
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    Voluntarism and nature conservation in Uganda
    ( 1996) Ken-Lukyamuzi, John
    It is honourable for one to be a volunteer or to volunteer to do anything. But before one volunteers to do anything one usually has to bother to find out the nature of voluntary work to be done and possibly where that work is to be performed. Not many people would certainly volunteer to hang in the way Honourable Brutus did after hanging Julius Casar.