Population pressure, land tenure, and tree resource management in Uganda

Assessments of changes in land use and tree cover density were made for 64 parishes in east-central Uganda between 1960 and 1995 using remote sensing data. Additional data were collected on population, tenure, access to marke ts, and other factors, and were used in models to explain changes in the la nd use and tree cover variables. Conversion of land into agriculture was he avily influenced by population pressure and was greater under the customary tenure system. The change in tree cover density was not linked to populati on pressure, and for agricultural land, was higher under the more privatize d ''mailo'' tenure system.