NEW NICHES OF COMMUNITY RIGHTS TO FORESTS IN CAMEROON: TENURE REFORM, DECENTRALIZATION CATEGORY OR SOMETHING ELSE?

摘要: In a difficult political economy, marked notably by multifaceted crisis, Cameroon, like many other African countries, launched the restructuring of policy and legal framework that governed management forest until mid-1990s. Given deep conflict discourse surrounding issue ownership rights to in Central Africa, allocation new niches community is, theory, meaningful emergence type relations between ‘central’ ‘local’ and, therefore, configuration issues resource ‘politics’ governance. Unlike West, East or Southern tenure is not really an old research domain Africa. While injecting information on topic, essay interrogates nature ongoing change structure Cameroon. terms, what this change? Some call it change, some others decentralization. Using conceptual, theoretical empirical arguments, conducts analysis both options concludes neither strict decentralization process nor reform. It mixture devolution delegation powers. Theorists, designers professional must be informed about dilemma.