In a corner of Nalukoko village, in central Uganda, Paul Kassamba (85) supports himself with a wooden stick and walks slowly outside his clay house. A colorful straw hat gives shadow to the face, which is covered with deep lines from a long life. The 85-year old grew up in a well-off family on Ssesse Island, in the northwestern part of Lake Victoria. He has fond memories from his childhood in the luxurious family house. When his family was given one square-mile (640 acres) of land from the Kabaka (Buganda Kingdom), Kassamba started a new life here in Mubende district. When the family arrived, the land was covered with thousands of peasants. Today, the tenants occupy every part of the area and Kassamba has no land of his own. Due to the complexity of Mailo land (One of four land tenure systems in Uganda) and the dual rights between the landlords and the tenants, it is common to find landlords like Kassamba living in deep poverty. The tenant’s rights to remain on their land makes it hard for landlords to generate income from investments on their own land.Most land lords in this part of the country have lost everything due to the complexity of this old tenure system.