AGRARIAN COMMUNITY WETLAND RESOURCES AS TRIGGERS OF INTERMITTENT INTERACTION CONFLICTS IN THE BALI NYONGA BASIN OF THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS OF CAMEROON
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 9
Abstract
This study surveys the geographical basis and trends of agrarian community conflicts typical of the Bali Nyonga community stakeholders’ quest for spatio-temporal agrarian resource disparity that creates rivalry between the crop and cattle farmers within this Grassfield bastion with a distinct intensity of cropping and cattle rearing. Apposite wetland hydrography and rangeland pasture epitomize the quintessence human and cattle attraction in a basin relief unit where wet and dry seasons alternate producing spring-boards of seasonal agrarian migrants whose wellbeing targets clash in historicity of community quest for scarce resource survival. This study identifies the seeds of this farmer-grazier misapprehensions in Bali as concealed in a history of intriguing political, socio-cultural, geographical, natural, economic and demographic pressure bound in traditional livestock raising and crop cultivation, the absence of paddocks, the mindset of crop farmers and graziers, the weaknesses of land tenure institutions, disrespect of transhumance laws and inadequacy of the legal framework. The results of this study reveal that the expansion of human and cattle population adversely heightened pressure on geographical resources thereby ushering in conflicts during the dry season transhumance. Signature of these conflicts take the form of petitions and recourse to the administration, violence and breakdown of communal solidarity, destruction of houses, loss of lives, displacement of population, devastation of crop and livestock.
Authors and Affiliations
Zephania Nji Fogwe| Department of Geography, University of Douala, P.O. Box 3132, Douala, Cameroon E-mail: nfogwez@yahoo.co.uk
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