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Abstract
Women in the Far North region of Cameroon face a sociological environment that limits their access to land: marriage, illiteracy, and ignorance of the regulatory provisions, complexity, and cost of land tenure, security procedures, and financial factors...Besides, women's access to land is accompanied by both positive and negative local perceptions, but remains strongly influenced by custom and traditional rules. They develop various strategies to gain access to land: use of economic capital, urbanization and opportunities to purchase land for building, firm desire to assert oneself and to prevent themselves against marital uncertainty...In addition, actions have been taken by various NGOs and Associations, but are not yet satisfactory. Reflections on securing women's rights to land require the need for legislative, regulatory and social reform.