@article{Touoyem:334264,
      recid = {334264},
      author = {Touoyem, Fabrice Mopi},
      title = {ACCES A LA PROPRIETE FONCIERE ET MISE EN VALEUR DURABLE  DES TERRES EN PAYS BAMUM AU CAMEROUN},
      journal = {African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences},
      address = {2020-01-01},
      number = {2367-2023-910},
      month = {Jan},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {Bamum is a territory of the West Region of Cameroon  founded in the 14th century by King  Nchare.  It  is  a   kingdom  where  the  King  is  the  custodian  of  the   land.  It  is  a cosmopolite area where the Bamum people  who are  native of the place, livetogetherwith others  people belonging toothers tribes. But, thoseallochtones  living there most often acquire land from native people for  exploitation. After buying a piece of land, they have only  a usufruit right on the land ceded to them, but not the  right to dispose of it. Thus,  attempts  to  obtain  land   title  are  very  often  forbidden  by  native  peoples  on   the pretext that they do not have the right to register  land in aforeign territory. This conflict situation   encourages  corruption  as  condition  to  register  the   land;  without  which  no investment is sustainable. Poor  land governance and inequalities in women's and youth  access to land reinforce land insecurity and poor land  development in Bamun country. This  work  aims  to  show   the  process of landaccessand  the  constraints  linked  to   the sustainable  development  of  land  in  Bamum   country.  The  study  is  based  on  literature review,   participating  observations,  resource  interviews,and   social  surveys.  As  result, land   is   managed   in    Bamum   country   by   the   King   in   a   decentralized    way.   This decentralization  system  is  made  possible   through  traditional  rulers.  There  are  many  inequalities  in  access  to  land  in  intercommunity  and   intracommunity  levels.  The intercommunity level concern  the inequality between native and stranger peoples. They  don’t have the same rights on the land. Native peoples do  not want strangers to secure land   in   their   territory    and   this   made   their   investment   less   important.    At   the intracommunity level, women and youth don’t have  the same right of access to land because of traditional  rules and modern law. Furthermore, Rich and poor people do  not also have the same capacities to own land because of  corruption in land tenure services, the long period and  high cost of establishment of land titles. Theses  inequalities causes land insecurity and causesa serious  threat to sustainable land development in Bamum country.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334264},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334264},
}