Issues in women's land rights in Cameroon / edited by Lotsmart N. Fonjong.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Fonjong, Lotsmart N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Land tenure--Cameroon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the customary, social, economic political and rights issues surrounding access, ownership and control over land from a gender perspective. It combines theory and practice from researchers, lawyers and judges..

Contents:

• Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Summary; Chapter One - Introduction to Land and Rural Women in Cameroon; Introduction; The Rural Woman in Cameroon; Women and Land in Agricultural Improvement and Socio-Economic Stability; Women and Land in Natural Resource and Holistic Environmental Management; Women and Water-related Issues; Cameroonian Rural Women and Forest Resource Exploitation; Rural Women Functionality within the Cameroonian Process of Decentralization; Conclusion; References
• Chapter Two - Equal Rights but Unequal Power over Land: Rethinking the Process of Engendering Land Ownership and Management in CameroonAbstract; Introduction; Contextualizing Issues of Rights and Women's Empowerment; Rethinking of Women' Land Rights; Gender dynamics and use of land; Why this Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership; Customary Laws in Cameroon; The Ineffectiveness of Statutory Provisions; Limitations of Legal Enforcement of Women's Land rights in Cameroon; The Basis for Engendering Land Reforms in Cameroon; Opportunities for Land Reforms; Conclusions
• Recommendations for Engendering the Process of Land Reforms in CameroonReferences; Chapter Three - Women's Inheritance Rights in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon; Abstract; Introduction; Sources of Law and Applicable Laws; Courts with jurisdiction to hear probate matters; Testate Succession (Testacy); Conditions necessary for a valid will; Form and Contents of Wills; The place of nuncupative wills post-obit gifts and gifts inter vivos; Intestacy (Intestate Succession); The Surviving Spouse; Inheritance rights of Married girls; The position of children born out of wedlock
• Administration of EstatesDistribution; Devolution to the surviving spouse; Revocation of grant of probate and letters; Liabilities and penalties for administration of estates; Conclusion; Chapter Four - Exploring Women's Rights within the Cameroonian Legal System: Where do Customary Practices of Bride-Price Fit in?; Abstract; Introduction; Customary Laws and Practices as a Hindrance to Women's Rights; Bride-Price and the Validity of Marriage; Bride-Price and Monogamy (and Bigamy); Bride-Price and the Dissolution of Marriage; Bride-Price and Paternity; Refund Of Bride-price
• Bride-price, women and propertyConclusion; Chapter Five - Women and Land Registration in Anglophone Cameroon: Lessons from South Africa; Abstract; Introduction; Theoretical framework of the paper; Social welfare Component of Land; African World view on property rights; Research Methodology; Land and Registration: An Overview; Registration as Instrument for Exclusion: South African Experience; Conclusion; Chapter Six - Mediating between Customs and Statutes in the Process of Land Registration and Enforcement of Women's Rights in Cameroon: The Role of the Administration; Abstract; Introduction
• Women and the Legal rights to own Land

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9786613531377
• 9781280127496
• 128012749X
• 9789956727605
• 9956727601
• 9789956727124
• 9956727121
• 9789956727018
• 9956727016

OCLC:

830165995