Urbanisation et mondialisation pour une transition socioécologique inversée : un écosystème de la vulnérabilité humaine dans le secteur de l’agriculture au Cameroun

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to explain the changes of agricultural production modes in Cameroon, from a quasi-bio situation in the 20th century, to a situation of generalized chemical assistance in the 21st century. In this country, this is a complex process at the heart of which the phenomenon of globalization acts as a driving force for the inversion of productive values. The social effects make popula-tions particularly vulnerable. Agriculture, a social activity whose purpose is to provide food and nutrition, is caught up in the vicious circle of pesticides and the distortion of endogenous modes of production. In a transdisciplinary heuristic process, the theoretical frame-work adopted is constructivism, whose essential modality is explanation through critique, where socio-ecological transition is the construction of a model in a world dominated by the contradictions of globalization. In Cameroon, for example, the agricultural sector has an opposite view of the model of socio-ecological transition, through the reversal of socio-economic and socio-ecological stakes.