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042 _adc
100 1 0 _aSeignobos, Christian
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aA Land Negotiation Nowhere to Be Found? The Case of the Mayo Rey in Northern Cameroon
260 _c2010.
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520 _aIn the most powerful Fula sultanate of North Cameroon, Rey Bouba, a boundary marking operation was inaugurated after 1996, on the disputed rural boundaries in a zone of coexistence between migrants and autochthonous communities. After eight years of boundary marking installation, led first by a Project, then a research unit (TERDEL) the traditional rulers stopped the process and ordered the markings under negotiation to be pulled out. In this way the traditional rulers have asserted their primacy over the land. The central administration is absent on land ownership affairs and the government is accepting withdrawal of the State, negotiated at Rey on the basis of some well understood electoral issues. Civil Society and NGOs are nonexistent. On the 'technical' supervision side, SODECOTON, a parastatal firm, accused of being at the service of migrants, was not considered neutral in 2005. The Development Agency in charge of land ownership therefore found itself helpless in the face of the traditional rulers alone. All negotiation concerning secure establishment of land ownership hence seems to have become impossible.
690 _aMayo-Rey
690 _aland ownership
690 _atra
690 _aland security
690 _aboundary markings
690 _amigrants
690 _aNorth Cameroun
786 0 _nAnnales de géographie | o 676 | 6 | 2010-12-01 | p. 657-677 | 0003-4010
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-annales-de-geographie-2010-6-page-657?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
999 _c374130
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