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Fruits and Nuts of Cameroon (French)

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Cameroon
2022

Book
Good Gardening and Growing Root and Grain Crops in Cameroon (French)

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Cameroon
2022

Book
Leafy Greens and Vegetables in Cameroon (French)

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Cameroon
2022

Practices
Extraction du miel par pressage - Pressoir à miel en bois (Cameroun

Le miel est un aliment pur et naturel que les abeilles conservent dans la ruche, dans les alvéoles. Pour extraire le miel des rayons de cire dans de bonnes conditions d’hygiène, il existe différentes méthodes : l’extraction par égouttage (par gravité) ou par pressage pour les apiculteurs utilisant des ruches à...
Cameroon
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Case study
L’agroécologie, au service de la diversité alimentaire Cas d’école en zones sahélienne et forestière du Cameroun

L’Extrême-Nord et l’Est sont certes deux régions du Cameroun différentes sur le plan écologique et distantes sur le plan géographique. Mais elles connaissent des difficultés similaires qui se traduisent par un niveau de développement très faible. Elles font partie des zones les plus pauvres du Cameroun. Cet état de pauvreté...
Cameroon
2021 - Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD-NGO)

Book
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Cameroon

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Cameroon
2021

Book
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Cameroon (French)

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Cameroon
2021

Manual
African Coronavirus stories

Perspectives on COVID-19 Challenges to Livelihoods and Food Systems
The impact of COVID 19 on food security in Africa has been among the most widely discussed subjects since the first cases of COVID-19 in Africa broke in February 2020. Most of the narratives were alarming. The headlines put Africa at the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis caused by...
Benin - Botswana - Cameroon - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - South Sudan - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2021 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA)

Practices
How to make the hive "Ruche Fonge"

The hive "Ruche Fonge" is an intermediate hive model which combines features of the Kenyan topbar hive and the Dadant movable frame hive. This hive model was developed and successfully tested by the "Groupe d'initiative locale camerounais "Apiculture lumière du Cameroun"" (GIC LUMICAM) and is now being promoted in Cameroun...
Cameroon
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Report
Unlocking the potential of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific

Cameroon
FISH4ACP is an initiative of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) aimed at making fisheries and aquaculture value chains in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific more sustainable. It aims to increase the competitiveness and environmental sustainability of Cameroon’s shrimp sector, its main fish and seafood export...
Cameroon
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Case study
Cameroon: Boosting small timber operators’ market access through improved legal compliance

Within the framework of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme partnered with Action for Sustainable Development (ASD) to increase legal compliance and the participation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Cameroon’s domestic legal timber market. Through combined efforts, ASD...
Cameroon
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Agroecology and Markets – Stories from the field

How wide are the agroecology ripples?
We cannot talk about food sovereignty without mentioning the role of mass markets on which the majority of people depend on their income and food. These markets have demonstrated their relevance during the COVID-19 era by strengthening rural-urban linkages. Mass markets have been the main avenue through which rural people...
Cameroon - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Mozambique - Nigeria - Senegal - Sudan - Uganda - Zambia
2020 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA)

Practices
Technologie de la ruche Fonge

Cette fiche technique présente la ruche Fonge qui est un modèle de ruche intermédiaire entre la ruche à barrettes modèle Kenyane et la ruche à cadres modèle Dadant. Ce modèle a été mis en place et expérimenté sur le terrain par le Groupe d'Initiative Locale Camerounais «Apiculture Lumière du Cameroun»...
Cameroon
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Blog article
Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective

Collective entrepreneurship has been found to alleviate extreme poverty by helping poor individuals integrate into their societies and overcome their multiple intertwined liabilities. We complement this line of inquiry by exploring the conditions under which group structures may instead reinforce economic and gendered poverty constraints. We conducted grounded-theoretical interviews with 104...
Cameroon
2020

Video
A Film to Promote Sustainable Food System Practices

This is a film produced by ICENECDEV(International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development) to promote sustainable Food System in the Mount Cameroon Forest Region through Tradition/Indigenous Knowledge, Agroecology and Natural Farming Practices in providing healthy Food to Healthy People. This film is produced to promote cultural and traditional practices...
Cameroon
2020 - International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV )

Case study
Social and Economic Empowerment in Agricultural Entrepreneurship

A Case Study of Rural Farmers in Cameroon
A case study has been conducted for assessing how Agricultural Entrepreneurship (being part of a farming cooperative, taking part to training programs and improving one’s commercial/agricultural techniques) results in social, political and economic empowerment among women farmers in Cameroon. In-depth interviews have been conducted in order to compare the empowerment process in farming cooperatives with the...
Cameroon
2019 - University of Mannheim

Policy brief/paper
Land rights: the missing link for food security in Cameroon

For decades food insecurity has been a challenge in Cameroon's Far North region, mainly due to extreme weather and weak land legislation. Now the problem is escalating. The current humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in over 87,000 refugees and 340,000 internally displaced people in the region....
Cameroon
2019 - International Institute for Environment and Development

Report
Être jeune et entreprendre dans le secteur agricole

Since its official launch in May 2016, Agribusiness web TV has been promoting various initiatives by young farmers and entrepreneurs who have become involved in the agricultural sector. This publication presents twenty-four of these youth initiatives that are engaged in production, processing (cereals, chocolate), green jobs and nutrition (organic market...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Cameroon - Côte d'Ivoire - Guinea - Senegal
2019 - Agribusiness TV

Case study
Institutional Dissonance, Acceptable Deviance and Socio-Economic Opportunities

How Marginalized Women Farmers Engage in Bottom-up Institution-Building in Cameroon
Drawing from extant literature on institution-building processes and emancipation through entrepreneurship, the author conducts an ethnographic study among rural farmers in Western Cameroon to inquire whether marginalized individuals can succeed to change institutions within their communities and what strategies they might devise to do so.
Cameroon
2019 - ICENECDEV

Case study
Passivity, Replication, and Creation

The Pathway from Subsistence Entrepreneurship to Community Well-Being
Why do subsistence entrepreneurs start pursuing non-subsistence economic activities? And how do non-subsistence entrepreneurial actions in the agricultural and industrial sectors respectively impact poverty in the entrepreneur’s community? This case study builds on the concept of replication opportunity, the entrepreneur’s imitation of the observable economic activities enacted by her peers, and entrepreneurial embeddedness, the...
Cameroon
2019 - ICENECDEV
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