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Deal #7676 Version #80693
Uganda
Created at
2020-01-31
Last update
2021-03-01
Consultation of local community
Community consultation
Not consulted
Comment on consultation of local community
Failure to conduct community consultations, seeking consent from affected communities
How did the community react?
Community reaction
Rejection
Presence of land conflicts
Presence of land conflicts
Yes
Comment on presence of land conflicts
The evicted families accuse two companies; Agilis Partners Limited, a grain dealing company and Kiryandongo Sugar Limited of colluding with the Police and the office of the Resident District Commissioner to violently evict them and destroying property worth millions of shillings.
Displacement of people
Displacement of people
Yes
Number of households actually displaced
3 000
Comment on displacement of people
Kiryandongo Sugar limited is also evicting over 3,000 families off former ranch 23, 28, 30 and 31 to grow sugarcane.
Before the agribusiness companies came in, Badudu and the other small farmers of Kiryandongo planted
beans, maize, sweet potatoes, bananas, groundnuts, cassava and mangoes, and they kept pigs, goats and
cows. Now, large chunks of land are covered with sugarcane, coffee, soya and maize which are all solely for
export, while one of the companies.
Negative impacts for local communities
Negative impacts for local communities
Socio-economic, Eviction, Displacement, Violence
Comment on negative impacts for local communities
An estimated 35,000 people are being evicted to make way for these three plantation projects (Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, Great Season SMC Limited and Agilis Partners).
The health of the workers and local people are also impacted by the heavy use of agrochemicals on the
plantations as well as the burning of sugarcane. Local residents say that nothing is done to protect them or
forewarn them when crops are being sprayed or being burned.
Several local schools have closed because the children can no longer access them.