ABSTRACT This article reports on a study that examined the Bakweri women and the land question in Cameroon in terms of access and ownership. This is in view of the observed deprivation of women from land ownership due to socio-cultural practice resulting from the patriarchy that dominates most of Cameroon. This is so in spite of increased involvement of women in food crop production. The question of the Bakweri women and their access to and ownership of land is significant given the fact that Cameroon has a National Gender Policy which recognises the problem, but does not provide a solution. The focus of the article was also necessitated by the fact that extant studies on women and land tenure in Cameroon were done in other parts of the country with little or nothing on the Bakweris in the Fako Division of the South West Region. Therefore, in seeking to address this gap, the study interrogated whether or not the Bakweri women were recipients of land or were only observers in the land distribution to the indigenes. The study used a qualitative exploratory approach whereby both observations and in-depth interviews were used for data collection from purposively sampled Bakweri women and village councillors in three villages that recently acquired land from the government.

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喀麦隆妇女的土地使用权和所有权问题：巴克韦里妇女的案例研究

摘要 本文报告了一项研究，该研究从获取和所有权的角度研究了喀麦隆的 Bakweri 妇女和土地问题。这是鉴于在喀麦隆大部分地区占主导地位的父权制导致的社会文化习俗导致妇女失去土地所有权。尽管妇女更多地参与粮食作物生产，但情况仍然如此。鉴于喀麦隆的国家性别政策承认这一问题，但并未提供解决方案，因此 Bakweri 妇女及其获得和拥有土地的问题很重要。这篇文章的重点还在于该国其他地区对喀麦隆妇女和土地保有权的现有研究很少或根本没有对西南地区法科省的 Bakweris 进行研究。所以，为了解决这一差距，该研究询问了 Bakweri 妇女是否是土地的接受者，还是只是向土著人分配土地的观察者。该研究使用了一种定性探索性方法，即通过观察和深入访谈来从最近从政府那里获得土地的三个村庄的有目的地抽样的 Bakweri 妇女和村议员收集数据。