This synthesis paper informs the planned oil palm expansion in Buvuma. It draws on documented experiences from Uganda and especially Kalangala district, and highlighting the possible threats, pressures and impacts in Buvuma, and offering strategies and recommendations to mitigate these. 

This report summarizes detailed interdisciplinary research undertaken in 2017 and 2018 on the negative impacts of oil palm development and makes solid recommendation to the government and its implementing partners, based on the findings and lessons learned.  

This publication presents eight background review papers that look at the impacts of oil palm production that now occupy more than a third of the main island in Kalangala district, and implications for planned expansion here and in neighbouring Buvuma district where oil palm plantations are scheduled for half of the area. The eight papers cover land use changes, environmental impacts, gender-based impacts, economic and social benefits compared to those from central forest reserves, mitigating negative impacts, implications on the management of remaining forests, and of land tenure laws.