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M. Eyongetta Njieassam

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Organisation: Gender and Youth solidarity for sustainable livelihood Cameroon
Pays: Cameroun
Domaine(s) de spécialisation
I am working on:

Fisheries and environmental management Aquaculture practices Livestock production/ management Integrated Agriculture, Ecological agriculture for climate change mitigation and adaptation, blue carbon sequestration

I am a Proactive consultant with over ten years of experience in fisheries and 

animal production. I have good experience in climate smart agriculture .Using participatory approach, have been able to establish various regenerative food systems for sustainable fisheries and livestock production. I am an active member of Global Forum for Food Security and Nutrition and also an Alumni 

of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Common Wealth Study Conference for Global Leaders

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    • Inequalities

      Women and youths in this region have the following challenges as inequality:

      - inaccessibility to land

      - lack of finance

      - lack of agricultural support tools from government agencies

      - no place in decision making

      - lack of access to information and training

      - cultural barriers

      Best practices

      My recommendation for best practices so far include:

      Most lands in our communities should be shared equally with women given the right to access and own lands. With this, women and youths who constitutes the main labour force working tirelessly to produce food will be able to cultivate and increase production due to access to land.

      Women like men should be given access to loans. This can be done through the creation of cooperatives by bringing together women in rural communities to come as one under a single plateform to manage their own finance and resources and create institituitions where they can be able to take loan and credits with little or no collateral.

      Government agencies should assist rural women and youths in supplying them with agricultural tools, such as hoes, machets, improved seeds and even organic fertilisers, lives birds, ruminants and feed and vaccines. This will boost production in the agricultural sector thereby increasing resilience and food availability and security.

      Women and youths, especially girl children, should be given an oppurtunity to play a role in community leadership and decision making especially on issues of agriculture and environmental management. Women are natural managers and thus if given a role they are going to take credible decisions that will build trust and confidence amongst them.

      Women and youths should be offered free informal training courses to assist them in gaining modern knowledge on agricultural practices. This is a great stem in helping the local women and youths to understand the environmental effects of conventional agriculture and thereby being encouraged or motivated to be more involved in sustainable agriculture practices.

      Generally, our African culture affects and limits women in aspects of land ownership, decision making and ownership of natural resources. I think working with community leaders to uplift some of these barries can go a long way to reduce inequality and give women the opportunity to take charge in their activities and communities.

      https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33502362/

      Thank you.

      Eyongetta Njieassam

    • The key elements involve firstly to:

      • clearly outline the definition of SSF;
      • identify the stake holders involve directly and indirectly in SSF activity;
      • evaluate and establish a credible Value Chain for SSF activity.

      Then organising a workshop and training with stakeholders involve using participatory approach.

      In the context of Cameroon and Africa in general, participatory monitoring is a novelty and a sound approach to gain credible data for monitoring SSF. Unlike before where government officials and other policy makers intervene without the consent of the stakeholders involved, today there is growing level of confidence and consciousness using participatory approach. This has begun to provide data for some missing links in SSF monitoring.

      They key actors should be , fishery experts and policy makers, international organisation, community's leaders, local fishermen and others who are directly or indirectly involve with fishery activity.

       

    • In my opinion and with respect to sub Saharan Africa, I think in order to developers a good guideline for food systems and nutrition we have to consider strongly the issue of gender marginalization and in adequate financial assistance to women die to cultural challenges. during the last hidden hunger congress that took place in the University of Stuttgart Germany, I did a presentation on gender marginalization and the contribution to the triple birders of malnutrition in dis Saharan Africa with my NGO gender and youth solidarity for Sustainable Livelihood. in my research, I found that early traditional marriage has put women into chains, participating in pleasant farming to feed their family. most of the small farms are owned and run by rural women, these women have limited access to land and with little financial support from donor groups or their husbands therefore they tend to cultivate mostly crops that can sustaining their household with seeds which are not improved. these crops range from cereals, rubbers etc, which mostly have high energy content but with low nutritional value. these women are mostly uneducated and are into early marriages and because of cultural affiliations, they toil day in day out in small farms to Carter for their families. as tradition May demand, the wife has to feign for the family without any support for the polygamous husband. so they go to farm work all day long come back home late in the night and prepare food harvested from farm for their families. the husband is served with high priority followed by children and which of course these women end up eating just the remains. most of such husbands have small cash received from the sales of extra cultivated cereals which they can use to run the daily live by buying drinks whil the women and children toil. at the end of the day the husband grows with protruded stomach becoming obsessed and probed with diseases like hypertension, cardiac arrest, diabetes etc while the women and cchildren be come malnourished, with frequent attack of anaemia, early child dead, brain deformation etc just to name a few. so I thing giving women equal opportunity in marriage, education, land ownership and funding can help to improve on food security and nutritional problems

      -women should be part of administration and decision making positions in government offices and inter-NGOs whose objectives are to improve food security, agriculture nd nutrition in resilient communities.

      women should be given the opportunity to fair decision on when, who and how they get married

      -cultural and traditional  early marriages shouldn't be encouraged

      -women should be given equal opportunity towards education especially in the field of agriculture and, food security and nutrition

      -short training courses on agricultural innovation should be sponsored to impact and train the rural women

      -government ad other organizations should engaged in supplying rural women with improved seeds of highly nutritious foods for cultivation

      -women should be granted equal opportunity as to land ownership

      -agricultural subvention and other funding to target food security issues should be focussed on rural women

      -government agencies and international organisations should be fair enough to provide scholarship in agriculture and food security and nutrition to young underprivileged women from local communities

      -gender marginalization and gender based violence in homes, offices and schools should be totally stamped out and should be a priority for human right organisations and other agencies to educate local communities with diverse cultural background and traditional stigma

      thank you E.S Njieassam

      CEO, Gender and Youth solidarity for Sustainable Livelihood-Cameroon

    • Greetings to you, my humble opinion stipulates thus,

      holding to the fact that artificial fertilizers have huge effect on the life of the soil, causes eutrophication in water and the heavy metals contained in such as lead bio-magnify through the ecosystem and which totally affects human health, I think this totally contradicts the objectives of FAO program which is to eliminate hunger, poverty, malnutrition and food insecurity and off-course to improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable way.

      there is therefore the need to first of identify the various stake holders involved, the consumers of artificial fertilizers, the producers and entrepreneurs involved and try to school them on the effects of artificial fertilizer on the ecosystem.

      The FAO member states should encourage organic farming as a feasible means to effectively achieve sustainable agriculture and fight food insecurity. This could be through the production of organic fertilizers using farm, poultry and livestock waste and also to encourage environmental education in schools to be able to educate the future generation on the importance of organic farming on the environment. Training could also be given to farmers on the advantages of organic fertilizers over artificial fertilizers.

      FAO member states could also place a high tax on the importation of artificial fertilizers and try to give subvention to farmers and train them on how to be able to recycle their farm waste to produce organic fertilizers. 

      Thank you

      E.s Njie-assam