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Restauration des paysages forestiers et régimes fonciers au Cameroun : Acquis et handicaps

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2023
Western Sahara, Madagascar, Cameroon
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
community forestry
forest conservation
state forests
urban forestry
Ce papier constitue une synthèse des acquis et des handicaps de la restauration des paysages forestiers et régimes fonciers au Cameroun. Il présente par ailleurs les engagements du Cameroun pour ralentir la déforestation et la dégradation de ses écosystèmes forestiers à travers la stratégie nationale de restauration des paysages forestiers, en lien avec les initiatives du Défi de Bonn, de l’AFR100 et de la Grande Muraille Verte.
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Modeling Fuel Choice among Households in Northern Cameroon

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
Cameroon
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land degradation
The present study aims to explore economic and socio-demographic factors that influence a household’s probability to switch from firewood to cleaner fuels (kerosene and LPG) in northern Cameroon. The paper employs an ordered probit model to construct cooking patterns and fuel choices. Three main cooking sources are considered: firewood, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas. Utilized data are derived from a national survey conducted in 2004 by the Cameroonian National Institute of Statistics.
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Utiliser le dialogue pour remédier aux conflits fonciers

Reports & Research
January, 2023
Cameroon
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
land inheritance rights
land reform
climate change
conflicts
land conflicts
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Land tenure legislation and soil security concerns in Cameroon

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2021
Cameroon
Land Degradation & Tenure
VGGT
land governance
land degradation
land tenure
tenure security
This chapter explores the interface between land tenure rights and soil security and screens through the Cameroonian land tenure legislation in order to identify relevant provisions that guarantee soil security.
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Land reform in Cameroon: a coherent vision from civil society

IIED Briefing

May, 2021
Cameroon
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
dispossession
land
environment
local communities
mining
resilience
Includes overview;the problem: Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) finance a destructive model;current situation: DFIs write off loans;impacted communities face repression;human rights abuses;the role of European DFIs;recommendations. The negative outcomes experienced in the case of Feronia Inc.
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In the Face of Threats and Invasions in the Forests, Communities Defend and Reclaim Their Life Spaces

WRM Bulletin 254 – Jan/Feb 2021

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2021
Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity
poverty
sustainable development
land-use planning
environment
climate change
fisheries
deforestation
forest conservation
forest management plans
mining
land dispute
community land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
Indigenous Peoples
land rights activists
local communities
extractive industries
women
The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals: National Coordinator for the Defense of the Mangrove Ecosystem (C-CONDEM), Ecuador; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakya (Bentala Raya Heritage Foundation), Indonesia; Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies who are part of grassroots groups in different countries.
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Dryland restoration successes in the Sahel and Greater Horn of Africa show how to increase scale and impact. Restoring African Drylands

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2020
Algeria, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land degradation
drylands
land restoration
Drylands occupy more than 40% of the world’s land area and are home to some two billion people. This includes a disproportionate number of the world’s poorest people, who live in degraded and severely degraded landscapes. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification states on its website that 12 million hectares are lost annually to desertification and drought, and that more than 1.5 billion people are directly dependent on land that is being degraded, leading to US$42 billion in lost earnings each year.
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Regreening the Sahel: A quiet agroecological evolution

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2020
Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agroforestry systems
community forestry
desertification
food security
forestry
land restoration
‘Over the past three decades hundreds of thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso and Niger, on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, have transformed large swathes of the region’s arid landscape into productive agricultural land, improving food security for about three million people. Once-denuded landscapes are now home to abundant trees, crops, and livestock.'
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End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Argentina, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, China, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Central Asia
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
conflicts
desertification
drylands
geographical information systems
land policies
It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept.
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Securing land rights in Cameroon: what hasn’t worked and what should be done

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2020
Cameroon
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land reform
customary law
climate change
land use
migration
land access
land conflicts
land tenure
land tenure systems
tenure security
Land in Cameroon is under growing pressure for many reasons — powerful commercial interests, changing climate conditions and shifting demographic flows including mass migration and increasing population density. The rights of rural communities and indigenous people to access and use land for farming and grazing have been eroded — primarily due to failure to recognise customary land tenure rights, land use conflicts and lack of effective local governance. The country’s land legislation is indeed outdated and not compatible with customary law and local realities.