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المؤلفون: Frankline Anum Ndi
المصدر: SAGE Open, Vol 7 (2017)
مصطلحات موضوعية: History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, AZ20-999, Social Sciences
الوصف: This article examines why peasant communities in South West Cameroon have contested a U.S.-based company’s intentions to establish an agro-industrial palm oil plantation in their region. Land investments in the form of agro plantations, if not properly conceived, negotiated, and implemented, pose a series of threats to the ecological, cultural, and economic stability among peasant farming communities, who depend on land and forest resources for their livelihood. Using Nguti as a case study, this article argues that local communities do not oppose investment in land but they contest projects that attempt to alienate them from their sources of livelihood without providing alternatives. The study also demonstrates how local communities, despite being critical of the project, struggle with the company through their relations with government, to demand new social contracts and/or memoranda that could offer them greater opportunities as economic partners. The article concludes that for palm oil plantations to be economically equitable, local communities’ incorporation is necessary to safeguard rural livelihoods and to ensure that provisions are made for adequate compensation and alternative sources of livelihood.
وصف الملف: electronic resource
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2158-2440
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المؤلفون: Frankline Anum Ndi, James Emmanuel Wanki, Joost Dessein
المصدر: DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW
مصطلحات موضوعية: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Planning and Development, AFRICA, Economic growth, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geography, ACQUISITIONS, traditional authorities, Geography, Planning and Development, neopatrimonial transactionalism, land dispossession, BIOFUELS, RIGHTS, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Development, livelihoods, Livelihood, Management, COMPENSATION, DEALS, PEOPLE, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cameroon, foreign land acquisition
الوصف: Motivation In Cameroon, most land earmarked for allocation to foreign investors is communally owned. The state, however, considers such land as empty or underutilized-a faulty designation that confers upon the Cameroonian state and state representatives sweeping authority to allocate lands to potential investors without full consultation with communities whose livelihoods depend on them. Purpose The article addresses the following questions: who are traditional authorities in the context of Cameroon? What is their place in the complex dynamics of neopatrimonial governance, and how does this influence their allegiance to state versus the people they ought to represent? How do they collaborate to enable state actions during land grabbing against their people? Methods and approach The study is based on interviews, group discussions, and field observations conducted as part of a larger project on land grabbing in Cameroon; and supplemented with secondary sources through critical reading of published and unpublished scholarly and technical sources, including reports from national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as Nature Cameroon as well as Green Peace, the World Bank, and other bodies. Findings It argues that land grabbing in Cameroon should be understood as an outcome of the state's strategic and/or opportunistic choice, within a neopatrimonial dispensation, to enforce its political power over land and related resources. Local traditional authorities paradoxically play the role of state facilitators in the process, rather than serving as custodians of the populations they represent. Policy implications The article concludes that such pernicious land acquisition would not have been successful without the active collaboration of traditional authorities (so-called state enablers) who act as brokers and facilitators of land deals-sometimes using threats, intimidation, and force on villagers. There is a need for policies to tackle the accountability problems arising from the ambivalent role that local traditional authorities play in Cameroon's neopatrimonial order-doubly serving as de facto representatives of local peoples, and at the same time as proxy enablers of large-scale land acquisition.
وصف الملف: application/pdf
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المؤلفون: Frankline A. Ndi
المصدر: Development Policy Review. 37:348-366
مصطلحات موضوعية: Economic growth, Food security, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Land grabbing, Gender studies, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Development, Livelihood, Politics, State (polity), Covert, Perception, Political science, Feminist political ecology, media_common
الوصف: This article examines the political economic processes and gendered consequences involved in large‐scale land acquisition (LSLA) in rural South West Cameroon. The study adopts a gender‐disaggregated approach to data collection to understand local perceptions and reactions to LSLA in the region. It shows how traditional cultural prescriptions have combined with contemporary land laws to masculinize power over land to the detriment of women. It argues that although men and women are both affected by LSLA projects, the impacts are much greater for women because what the state considers “empty land” is used by them to secure household food security. Second, it argues that amid societal discrimination over land‐ownership rights, perceived gender differences between men and women appear “rational” in the event of LSLA—men follow their ascribed roles in overt reactions, women being more covert and much less vocal in land‐related contests. New policies that promote rural women's land rights will not only empower them during land struggles, they will also provide communities with greater security to sustain ecologically viable livelihoods.
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المؤلفون: Frankline A. Ndi
المصدر: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 53:131-154
مصطلحات موضوعية: Cultural Studies, History, Sociology and Political Science, business.industry, 050204 development studies, 05 social sciences, 0507 social and economic geography, Land grabbing, Development, Livelihood, Geography, Anthropology, 0502 economics and business, Food processing, Socioeconomics, business, 050703 geography, Demography, Subdivision
الوصف: This article examines the disproportionate gendered impacts of land grabbing amongst affected communities in Nguti subdivision of the South West Region of Cameroon. I argue that, first, pre-existin...
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المؤلفون: Frankline A. Ndi, Simon Batterbury, James Emmanuel Wanki
مصطلحات موضوعية: settlers, Sociology and Political Science, Inequality, Kulturgeografi, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, patronage, Livelihood, Land acquisition, Human Geography, Power (social and political), Agrarian society, Politics, Empirical research, Leverage (negotiation), Political economy, Political science, indigenes, Cameroon, Centrality, media_common, lineage
الوصف: Despite the proliferation of literature on large-scale land acquisitions(LSLA) in Africa, few empirical studies exist on how patronage networks combine with socio-cultural stratification to determine the livelihood outcomes for African agrarian-based communities. This article draws from ethnographic research on Cameroon to contribute to bridging this gap. We argue that lineage and patronage considerations intersect to determine beneficiaries and losers during LSLA. Second, we show that LSLA tend to re-entrench existing inequalities in power relations that exist within communities in favour of people with traceable ancestral lineage. Concomitantly, non-indigenous groups especially migrants bear the brunt of exclusion and are unfortunately exposed to severe livelihood stresses due to their inability to leverage patronage networks and political power to defend their interests. We submit that empirical examination of the impacts of land acquisitions should consider the centrality of power and patronage networks between indigenes and non-indigenes, and how this socio-cultural dichotomy restricts and/or mediates land acquisition outcomes in Cameroon.
Funding agency:University of Melbourne 381285وصف الملف: application/pdf
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::2fdb21b4b3328e59d0922f6d3903743c
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المؤلفون: Frankline A. Ndi, James Emmanuel Wanki
المصدر: Natural Resource Endowment and the Fallacy of Development in Cameroon
مصطلحات موضوعية: Geography, Agroforestry, Land grabbing
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::339c57b2937f6848ef599e541121c708
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المؤلفون: Simon Batterbury, Frankline A. Ndi
المصدر: Africa Spectrum
مصطلحات موضوعية: landed property, Economic growth, socioeconomic effects, Zentralafrika, Sociology and Political Science, Economics, 050204 development studies, politischer Konflikt, Sociology & anthropology, agricultural development, Kommerzialisierung, Entwicklungsland, Agrarstruktur, Social conflict, Cameroon, Land tenure, farmer, Bodennutzung, Central Africa, sozioökonomische Folgen, Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Agrarproduktion, 05 social sciences, Land grabbing, Wirtschaft, Economic Sectors, Rural Sociology, social conflict, Peasant, Kamerun, Agrarian society, agricultural production, Lebensbedingungen, ddc:301, 050703 geography, Cultural Studies, agrarian structure, 0507 social and economic geography, Agrarsoziologie, Development, living conditions, Politics, political conflict, 0502 economics and business, ddc:330, Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology, Landwirt, landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung, commercialization, developing country, land use, Wirtschaftssektoren, Land Grabbing, Soziologie, Anthropologie, Dominance (economics), Political economy, Political Science and International Relations, Elite, Grundbesitz, sozialer Konflikt
الوصف: Großflächiger Landerwerb (large-scale land acquisition, LSLA) durch ausländische Investoren ist ein Hauptmotor für Agrarwandel in den fruchtbaren Regionen des afrikanischen Kontinents. In den ländlichen Gebieten Südwestkameruns, in denen die gewohnten Formen der Landnutzung und des Zugangs zu Land durch kommerzielle Interessen bedroht sind, haben LSLA politische Konflikte ausgelöst. Die Autoren zeigen die Spannungen auf, die aus Versuchen entstehen, die Existenzbedingungen zu bewahren oder neu zu definieren, und zwar einerseits unter lokalen Wettbewerbern um Land und andererseits gegenüber Ansprüchen externer Interessenten. In Nguti Subdivision, dem Schauplatz von Protesten gegen ein Agrarunternehmen, ist eine anhaltende Debatte über die ideelle Bedeutung von Land und die Interessen an Landnutzung und Landbesitz entstanden. Die Autoren zeigen auf, wie die bisherigen Landnutzer durch von oben autorisierte Landkäufe marginalisiert werden und wie daraus Konflikte zwischen Gemeinden und investierenden Unternehmen entstehen. Sie kommen zu dem Schluss, dass erfolgreich und konfliktfrei verlaufende Agrarprojekte nur dann möglich sind, wenn die Dominanz elitärer Interessen inklusiveren Prozessen weicht. Large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) by foreign interests is a major driver of agrarian change in the productive regions of Africa. Rural communities across Southwest Cameroon are experiencing a range of political conflicts resulting from LSLA, in which commercial interests are threatening local land-use practices and access to land. This paper shows that the struggle to maintain or redefine livelihoods generates tension between inward competition for and outward contestation of claims to land. In Nguti Subdivision, the scene of protests against a particular agribusiness company, there is continued debate over ideas about, interests in, and perceptions of land and tenure. The authors show how topdown land acquisition marginalises land users, leading to conflicts within communities and with the companies involved, and conclude that for an agro-project to succeed and avoid major conflicts, dominance by elite interests must give way to a more inclusive process.
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::917c474a79f8ddb1f58dc7d7759f724b
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8دورية أكاديمية
المؤلفون: Frankline A. Ndi, Simon Batterbury
المصدر: Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Africa Spectrum. 52(1):33-63
الوصف: Large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) by foreign interests is a major driver of agrarian change in the productive regions of Africa. Rural communities across Southwest Cameroon are experiencing a range of political conflicts resulting from LSLA, in which commercial interests are threatening local land-use practices and access to land. This paper shows that the struggle to maintain or redefine livelihoods generates tension between inward competition for and outward contestation of claims to land. In Nguti Subdivision, the scene of protests against a particular agribusiness company, there is continued debate over ideas about, interests in, and perceptions of land and tenure. The authors show how topdown land acquisition marginalises land users, leading to conflicts within communities and with the companies involved, and conclude that for an agro-project to succeed and avoid major conflicts, dominance by elite interests must give way to a more inclusive process.
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