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'We Have Democracy Now': The Impact of Institutional Change on the Logone Floodplain, Cameroon
(2005) Fokou, Gilbert; Landolt, Gabriela
"This paper illustrates how local institutions for managing the fisheries and the pastures of the indigenous Kotoko have been eroded through political change, with more power going to seasonally immigrating nomadic and permanently immigrating ethnic group such as Arab Choa and Musgum. The Arab Choa and Musgum now claim rights to resources on the basis of democracy, enabling them, as well as the administration, to undermine the power of local stakeholders, a minority unable to control the Common Pool Resources (CPRs). Former, traditional arrangements for sharing pasture between pastoralists and fishermen, as well as the primacy of the Kotoko over fishing activity, have become ineffective."