@article{Touoyem:334413,
      recid = {334413},
      author = {Touoyem, Fabrice Mopi and Binele, Marlise Sandrine Kouna},
      title = {LOCAL COMMUNITIES FACE TO LAND EXPROPRIATION AND EVICTIONS  IN THE ERA OF MAJOR STRUCTURAL PROJECTS AND TERRITORIAL  REGULATION IN SOUTHERN CAMEROON: AN ANALYSIS OF THE  OUTLINES OF A CONTROVERSIAL PHENOMENON},
      journal = {African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences},
      address = {2020-11-01},
      number = {2367-2023-968},
      month = {Nov},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {Both land expropriation and eviction constitute a threat  to the properties and life of local communities. In  Southern Cameroon, the phenomenon has increased with the  implementation of structural projects to ensure the  emergence of Cameroon by 2035 and the resumption of the  control of urban space by the State. The aim of this  article is to show how structural projects and the  regulation of urbanization in big towns affect local  communities. To achieve this, the study carried out a  collection of data supported by a literature research,  direct observations, and interviews with victims of  expropriations and evictions, the administration in charge  of the state property and land affairs, administrative  authorities and some employees of the Douala and Yaoundé  Urban Cities Councils. It turns out that land expropriation  in the framework of the structural projects is an  opportunity for some people to do business. Compensations  derived from these operations benefits much more to those  individuals and the administration in charge of these  operations rather than the victims of the expropriations.  The members of the commission of assessment and evaluation  of properties with the complicity of some individuals used  to introducing the names of fake individuals,  over-evaluating properties, and establishing fake land  titles or establishing them after the signature of the  declaration of public utility decree, so as to increase the  amount of indemnities and to enrich themselves illicitly.  This is the cause of the regular angriness of local  communities who are not only losing their ancestral lands,  but are also facing injustice. On the other hand, the  evictions in big towns are the result of the loss of the  control of urban space by public authorities, which has  favored an anarchic occupation of the space by the  population and the installation of these on state property.  These victims do not receive any compensation of eviction,  as the victims of land expropriation for public utility  reasons. It is therefore for the authority of the State to  ensure a good achievement of land expropriation and  compensation operations, so that the victims can benefit at  fair value from the compensation of prejudice recorded and  to preconize preventive urbanization instead of corrective  urbanization that makes more victims of evictions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334413},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334413},
}