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Discourses of FLEGT and REDD + Regimes in Cameroon: A Nongovernmental Organization and International Development Agency Perspectives

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Cameroon
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land tenure
This paper applies the international environmental negotiations framework (IENF) and the multiple streams framework (MSF) to analyze the influence of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and International Development Agencies (IDAs) in the development and implementation of the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade agreement (FLEGT) and the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) regimes in Cameroon. Deforestation, forest degradation, and illegal logging are critical issues in forest management in many forest-rich countries around the world.
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Apes;crops and communities: land concessions and conservation in Cameroon

IIED Briefing

July, 2019
Cameroon
Land & Investments
Land & Food Security
land
scale
land deals
forestry
water
farmers
activities
Argues that the role of the European Union in landgrabbing is manifold. EU actors are involved in the financing of large-scale land deals worldwide through forms of private finance;public finance and a combination of both. The EU’s position as an agricultural powerhouse is dependent on the huge import of agricultural commodities and inputs from the global South. Europe has a vast land import dependency with nearly 60% of the land used to meet Europe’s demand for agricultural and forestry products coming from outside its borders.
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Land rights: the missing link for food security in Cameroon

IIED Briefing

July, 2019
Cameroon
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
legal empowerment
smallholders
land
land registration
property rights
Land registration and titling in Africa are often advocated as a pro-poor legal empowerment strategy. Advocates have put forth different visions of the substantive goals this is to achieve. Some see registration and titling as a way to protect smallholdersrights of access to land. Others frame land registration as part of community-protection or ethno-justice agendas. Still others see legal empowerment in the market-enhancing commodification of property rights. This paper contrasts these different visions;showing that each entails tensions and trade-offs.
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New Times, New Opportunities: Grasping the future with the world's youngest population in the Sahel.

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Africa
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
gender equity in access to land
land restoration
migration
poverty
sustainable development
The support plan for the Sahel is a regional approach to collectively address the root causes of disruptions such as poverty, migration and youth unemployment, climate change, insecurity, governance and institutional issues in the region. In this report an overview of the current situation for each of the priority areas of the UN Support Plan is presented to demonstrate that the full implementation of the plan could utilize an existing momentum of development not seen in decades in the Sahel.
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Apes, crops and communities: land concessions and conservation in Cameroon

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2019
Cameroon
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land administration
land distribution
land use
land conservation
land allocation
land investments
land rights
Cameroon’s current land law appears to have two conflicting objectives: to attract investors through large-scale land concessions while simultaneously protecting biodiversity, defending local people’s rights and promoting rural development. But the legislation governing large-scale land-based investments is outdated and sometimes incoherent. The land allocation process is investor driven and does not appropriately balance economic, social or environmental considerations.
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Données d’observations de la terre et outils cartographiques libres à la caractérisation de la dynamique foncière face à l’accaparement des terres à grande échelle au sud-ouest Cameroun.

Vol 2, No 2: May 2019

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2019
Cameroon
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land grabbing
Situé en plein cœur de la forêt équatoriale dans le bassin du Congo, la région du Sud-ouest est sans doute l’une des plus riches du Cameroun. Elle comporte une biodiversité des plus diversifiées avec une importance significative des espèces endogènes ainsi que des espèces commerciales. Les conditions pédologiques, hydrographiques et orographiques sont favorables à l’agriculture, ce qui a amené les allemands dès leurs arrivées au Cameroun à s’y implanter.
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GENDER-BASED LAND ACCES AND WELLBEING IN CAMEROON

Vol 2, No 2: May 2019

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2019
Cameroon
Land & Gender
poverty
land
women
The aim of this paper is to highlight the determinants of women land access in Cameron and appreciate its effects on wellbeing trough income and consumption. We use the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to capture land access determinants and a Simultaneous Equations Model (SEM) to put on evidence the implications on wellbeing in Cameroon.
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L’accès des femmes au foncier dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun Entre persistance de la tradition et dynamiques socio-économiques

Vol 2, No 1: March 2019, Special Issue on Women&Land

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
Cameroon
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
land access
women
Les femmes de la région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun font face à un environnement sociologique qui limite leur accès au foncier : mariage, illettrisme et ignorance des dispositions règlementaires, complexité et coût des procédures de sécurisation foncière, facteurs financiers... Par ailleurs, l’accès des femmes au foncier est accompagné des perceptions locales à la fois positives et négatives, mais qui reste fortement influencées par la coutume et les règles traditionnelles.
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ACCES A LA PROPRIETE FONCIERE ET MISE EN VALEUR DURABLE DES TERRES EN PAYS BAMUM AU CAMEROUN

Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Cameroon
land
land ownership
Le pays Bamum est un territoire de la région de l’Ouest Cameroun fondé au XIVe siècle par le roi Nchare. C’est un royaume où le Sultan est le dépositaire des terres. Les allochtones acquièrent le plus souvent des terres auprès des autochtones pour exploitation. Les autochtones n’ont qu’un droit d’usufruitsur les terre qui leurs sont cédées, mais aucun droit de disposer sur celles-ci. Ainsi, les tentatives d’immatriculation de ces terrains se heurtent très souvent au véto des autochtones du fait qu’ils n’ont pas le droit de sécuriser les terres dans un territoire étranger.
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Securing land tenure for women in Cameroon's forest societies: a marginalized position seen and maintained

Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Cameroon
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
forestry
land
land tenure
women
Land capital occupies a prominent place in production activities in Africa. In forestry companies, women workers of production excellence, do not enjoy the same rights as the male agent in terms of access to land. This article attempts to question the foundations of this societal injustice while highlighting the various shadows that overwhelm women's tenure security in the forest zone. The major goal is to study in the event of looking for sustainable, inclusive solutions.