The Value of Land Part 1| 2mins
Director: Jason Taylor | Producer: Chintan Gohil
Focus Years: 2012 | Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
On her 2.5 acres of land in Kalangala, Uganda, Imelda grows sweet potatoes, cassava, banana, yams and rears goats. She has 9 children. She and her family have been threatened by the palm company representatives who say that the land is theirs and want her to move away. Elite land owners are constantly looking for land to sell or lease to the company, and everyone’s land or right to land is under scrutiny as profit motive begin to tear apart a self-subsistent society. Her husband is a heavy drinker and she sees no income from him -- her only source of income is from the food she grows on her small plot of land.
The Value of Land Part 1
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