caa a22 4500 469025816 CHVBK 20180323132729.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00185094 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00185094 Ngwa Nebasina Department of Geography, University of Yaounde, BP 755, Yaounde, Republic of Cameroon aut Responding to unmet food needs of displaced persons or refugees [Elektronische Daten] A case study for new approaches in Kousseri town and nyos area of the Republic of Cameroon [Nebasina Ngwa] This paper identifies two types of displaced persons in two different ecological zones in Cameroon as a result of two major causes; a poisonous lake gas explosion in the North West and the effects of a civil war in Chad on Kousseri town in North Cameroon. The displaced persons, through no fault of theirs had to look up to both international and local donor organizations for assistance. This paper addresses the usual unmet food needs, analyses some of the performances that often go wrong but which can be corrected. The paper points out that donor agencies and the host government played major roles in raising food, cash, etc. but regrets to note that unsurmountable logistical problems, improper choice and use of personnel with wider expertise to handle specialized problems, inexistent buffer stocks and non-involvement of the displaced persons in managing some of the problems hindered hard-generated resources from reaching most of the beneficiaries. Better performances lie in reducing dependency on continuous external supplies and also in the local hosts allowing room for small scale agro-pastoral productions which should satisfy and even improve on the unmet nutritional difficiencies and rations of the displaced persons. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/4(1992-08-01), 323-330 0343-2521 27:4<323 1992 27 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00185094 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00185094 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ngwa Nebasina Department of Geography, University of Yaounde, BP 755, Yaounde, Republic of Cameroon aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/4(1992-08-01), 323-330 0343-2521 27:4<323 1992 27 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer