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Title:Conflict over landownership: the case of farmers and cattle graziers in the northwest region of Cameroon
Author:Sone, Patience Munge
Year:2012
Periodical:African Journal on Conflict Resolution (ISSN 1562-6997)
Volume:12
Issue:1
Pages:83-101
Language:English
Geographic term:Cameroon
Subjects:landownership
land conflicts
External link:https://www.accord.org.za/ajcr-issues/%ef%bf%bcconflict-over-landownership/
Abstract:This article examines landownership in Cameroon, and in particular recurring land conflicts in the northwest region of the country. The article gives an overview of various theoretical frameworks on landownership, including human rights theory, negotiating power theory, the egalitarian theory of justice, and the instrumentalist model. It argues that the conflicts over landownership between farmers and cattle breeders in the northwest region have their roots in scarcity of land, climate change, and the 'poor' application of statutory laws guaranteeing landownership. Class discrimination is identified as one of the main factors responsible for land conflicts, but also as a main constraint resulting from such conflicts. Farmers have access only to family land, but lack control over community land. Female farmers have suffered from cultural restrictions which do not allow them to own land, despite statutory laws that propagate equal rights to own land. The author argues that the government needs to establish structures that ensure the equitable ownership of land. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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