Appraisal of smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climatic variations and changes in the Western Highlands of Cameroon

Awazi, Nyong Princely; Tchamba, Martin Ngankam; Temgoua, Lucie Félicité; Avana, Marie-Louise Tientcheu

doi:10.1016/j.sciaf.2020.e00637

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“…33 In the case of Cameroon, revenues from carbon tax could be used to finance climate mitigation and adaptation actions and to subsidize smallholder farmers who are one of the most vulnerable groups to climate change. 34 The operationalization of a carbon in Cameroon however requires the existence of a suitable legal framework that can guide and regulate its implementation.…”

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The Legal Framework for Carbon Tax: A Case of Cameroon

Ngwome

2023

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This article builds a case in favour of using carbon tax as a cost-effective tool for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as part of the climate change mitigation solution in terms of discouraging further GHG emission. Drawing on existing primary and secondary data, the article makes an assessment of the Cameroon’s legal environment for the design and implementation of carbon tax and articulates on the prospects and challenges of designing and implementing it. The article postulates that in spite of the promising opportunities that carbon tax offers for regulating GHG emissions, the potentials of this climate-smart fiscal policy tool has not yet been explored within the framework of climate governance in Cameroon. The article finds that while the spirit of carbon tax is underpinned by relevant environmental law principles, there is a timid legal framework both at the international and national levels for using carbon to regulate GHG emissions in Cameroon. The article concludes with a recommendation of the strong need for Cameroon to introduce a carbon-tax system as one of the cost-effective measures to reduce the country’s GHG emissions by adopting a carbon tax legal instrument designed specifically to target major GHG emitters across dozens of economic sectors.

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The Legal Framework for Carbon Tax: A Case of Cameroon

Ngwome

2023

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“…Smallholder farmers in Cameroon are highly exposed to the adversities of climate variability and change; they are highly sensitive and their adaptive capacity leaves much to be desired [17] . This makes farmers and farming systems highly vulnerable to climate variability and change [47] . Smallholder farmers are exposed to extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, high temperatures, extreme sunshine, scanty and erratic rainfall, recurrent storms, prolong dryness as well as other extreme events such as bushfires, pest and diseases as well as invasive weeds.…”

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Agroforestry for Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience Enhancement and Vulnerability Attenuation in Smallholder Farming Systems in Cameroon

Awazi

2022

j. of atmos. sci. res.

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The adverse impacts of climate variability and change are felt mostly by smallholder farmers and smallholder farming systems where rainfed agriculture is predominant. Continuous dependence on rain-fed agriculture has led to declining crop productivity and crop failure in most cases as weather patterns shift which is very problematic for crop growth. Agroforestry which is one of the climate-smart, environmentally benign and agroecological practices has been found to mitigate climate change adversities while fostering adaptation, enhancing resilience and attenuating vulnerability especially in smallholder farming systems. However, in Cameroon, limited empirical research has been done to ascertain the role played by agroforestry in climate change adaptation, resilience enhancement and vulnerability attenuation. This paper which is based on an in-depth review of literature was undertaken to uncover what has been done so far in terms of empirical studies tackling the role played by agroforestry in climate change adaptation, resilience and vulnerability attenuation in Cameroon. It was found that most of the empirical studies have been carried out in one agroecological zone – the western highlands of Cameroon, showing that smallholder farmers adopt different agroforestry practices in the face of climate change with the most common being home gardens with livestock, home gardens without livestock, scattered trees on croplands, improved fallows, live fences/hedges and windbreaks, coffeebased agroforestry, cocoa-based agroforestry, apiculture-based agroforestry, fodder banks, and plantation crop-based agroforestry practices. These agroforestry practices provide a plethora of ecosystem services categorized into provisioning, supporting, regulating and cultural which play an important role towards fostering climate change adaptation, enhancing resilience and attenuating vulnerability in smallholder farming systems. From the findings uncovered by this study, it is imperative for more empirical studies to be carried out in the other four agroecological zones of Cameroon where there is a paucity of information regarding the role played by agroforestry towards fostering climate change adaptation, enhancing resilience and attenuating vulnerability in smallholder farming systems.

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