ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on conflict dynamics in the Waza-Logone floodplains in the Extreme North of Cameroon. We show that recent clashes between farmers and herders are the most visible phenomena in a broader process of growing interethnic and intraethnic competition over natural resources. This is related to the emergence of new practices of natural resource management, and particularly the proliferation of canals and the individual appropriation of canals and fishing reserves. At the same time, changes in the organisation of access to other resources (agricultural land and grazing areas) reflect wider dynamics and call into play other destabilising factors, such as land insecurity and corruption, that amplify local inequalities.
