The slow rollout suggests that land access alone has not sparked large-scale agricultural investment. Cameroon has begun developing only 3,000 hectares of the 200,000 hectares of land it secured for large-scale farming, highlighting the challenge of turning land availability into private investment. Land Is Available, but Investment Has Been SlowThe land reserve stretches across the Yoko-Lena-Tibati corridor between the Centre and Adamawa regions. The early results suggest that while secure land tenure is an important prerequisite, it is not enough on its own to attract large-scale agricultural investment. During a government mission along the Batchenga-Ntui-Yoko-Tibati-Ngaoundéré corridor in July 2024, local communities raised concerns about the way the land reserves were established.