{"id":4314,"date":"2019-08-02T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"cameroon-conflict-turns-climate-stressed-farmers-into-food-beggars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/02\/cameroon-conflict-turns-climate-stressed-farmers-into-food-beggars\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Conflict Turns Climate-Stressed Farmers Into &#8216;Food Beggars&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/profile\/?id=003D000001BGCQ2IAP\">Elias Ntungwe &nbsp;Ngalame<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John\nTabi, a cocoa farmer from Cameroon&#8217;s Southwest Region, barely ekes out a living\nselling water sachets in a refugee camp in Douala, after fleeing a separatist\ninsurgency back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\ncrisis has reduced him and his family of five to &#8220;beggars depending on\ncrumbs from humanitarian aid&#8221;, Tabi, 52, told the Thomson Reuters\nFoundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;For\nthree years running, I can no longer have access to my cocoa farm, which is my\nsource of income, because of the conflict,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands\nof small-scale farmers in Cameroon&#8217;s English-speaking Southwest and Northwest\nregions have been forced off their land by armed conflict between government\nforces and Anglophone separatists seeking to form an independent state called\nAmbazonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\ncrisis began with demands by Anglophone Cameroonians for a bigger say in the\nFrancophone-dominated government, sparking strikes and protests in late 2016\nand escalating into an uprising a year later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nresulting conflict has left at least 1,850 people dead and more than half a\nmillion displaced inside the country, according to a May 2019 report by Human\nRights Watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hospitals\nand hundreds of villages have been burned, with more than 80 percent of schools\nclosed and 800,000 children deprived of education, according to the United\nNations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nNorwegian Refugee Council has called it the world&#8217;s most neglected displacement\ncrisis, edging towards full-blown war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile,\nabandonment of farms will likely increase hunger and poverty, and cripple the\neconomy, warned Celestin Tawamba, president of the Cameroon Employers&#8217;\nAssociation, GICAM. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190730063859-9uxv7\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Elias Ntungwe &nbsp;Ngalame John Tabi, a cocoa farmer from Cameroon&#8217;s Southwest Region, barely ekes out a living selling water sachets in a refugee camp in Douala, after fleeing a separatist&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}