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  • The Strangers of New Bell

    2008, author(s)-editor(s) Lynn Schler
    Immigration, Public Space and Community in Colonial Douala, Cameroon, 1914-1960 Confusion, struggle, commotion and absurdity: these characterise the urban encounter between the African immigrant community and colonial officials in Douala, Cameroon. Even the physical landscape reflects a painfully enduring history of marginalisation, of exclusion from power and privilege. This book studies a community of African immigrants - or ’strangers’ - designated to quarters in New Bell, Douala, in (...)

  • Ecology and Natural Resource Development in the Western Highlands of Cameroon

    2009, author(s)-editor(s) Cornelius Mbifung Lambi, Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
    Issues in Natural Resource Management The densely populated Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon remains one of the regions with the greatest land degradation problems in the country. Factors responsible for this include climate change, the hilly nature or topographic layout of the land, and human interference through overgrazing, destructive agricultural practices and the impact of deforestation. This detailed study of resource management and its ecological challenges in the Bamenda Highlands, (...)

  • Crisis and Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: Civil Society and Agro-Industry in Anglophone Cameroon’s Plantation Economy

    2010, author(s)-editor(s) Piet Konings
    This book discusses the social and political consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell African economies since the 1980s, using as case study the plantation economy of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. The focus is thus on recent efforts to liberalize and privatize an agro-industrial enterprise where overseas capital and its domestic partners have converged, the consequent modes of production and labour, and the alternatives proposed and resistance generated. The study (...)

  • Environmental Problems in the Bakossi Landscape

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Ekpe Inyang
    A Handbook for Environmental Educators Written in simple and straightforward language, Environmental Problems in the Bakossi Landscape is a practical handbook of knowledge and skills needed to be more efficient in sensitising and taking practical steps to address environmental problems. Although the handbook focuses on the seven environmental problems of the Bakossi Landscape, its depth and breadth of analysis and the deliberate attempt at not making it too site-specific in the discussion (...)

  • Ethnobotanic Resources of Tropical Montane Forests: Indigenous Uses of Plants in the Cameroon Highland Ecoregion

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
    Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on plants and sophisticated institutions for managing limited plant and animal resources. Such knowledge and institutions have often been threatened, or even destroyed, by centralization and globalization; yet there is increasing (...)

  • Local Livelihoods and Protected Area Management: Biodiversity Conservation Problems in Cameroon

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
    Cameroon’s tropical forest is home to numerous plants and animals. It is also inhabited by Baka pygmies who are foragers and Bantu farmers. These communities have developed forest–dependent livelihoods, cultures and religions. Destruction of the forest by commercial and state interests, subsistence agriculture and the harvesting of products has necessitated a considerable upsurge in environmental protection projects to conserve and rehabilitate ecosystems, forests, soils and water resources. (...)

  • Climate Change and the Management of Natural Systems in Cameroon

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
    This book emphasises that planning is essential, as the conservation approaches of the past may not work in an ever-changing warmer environment. It appraises current management strategies, assesses the biological and physical effects of climate change on natural systems in Cameroon and designs a planning and management framework for each natural system within the context of global warming. Climate change poses a complex bewildering array of problems for ecosystems. The key question is, what (...)

  • Economics of Banana Production and Marketing in the Tropics: A Case Study of Cameroon

    2012, author(s)-editor(s) Angus S.N.D Chidebelu, Esendugue Gregory Fonsah
    In most African countries, banana production has been consigned to subsistence production. However, a few countries, especially in Francophone West Africa, have recognised the commercial importance of banana, and have used their special relationship with France to export bananas. This has led to the dualization of the banana sector, with the traditional system existing side by side with a modern sector geared towards export trade. This book is one of the few comprehensive studies that have (...)