Presented by Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun (Congo Basin Institute (CBI), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Cameroon) at "A nature-positive trade for sustainable agriculture supply chains and inclusive development", Jakarta, Indonesia, on 26 - 27 Sep 2023

1. 26-27 SEPTEMBER 2023
The way forward - inter-regional exchange
with Africa, Asia and Latin America and the
Caribbean
Reflections actions, opportunities and challenges that Africa, an particularly Cameroon,
face to move toward more sustainable and inclusive agriculture and supply chains, and how
can trade help to deliver this?
Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Dr.

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Cameroon Ghana Ivory
Coast
Nigeria
GDP share of agriculture
2022
Source of Pictures: Jonas Ngouhouo
Agricultural in African Economies
42.60%
39.49%
45.04%
35.21%
0.00% 20.00% 40.00% 60.00%
Cameroon
Ghana
Ivory
Coast
Nigeria:
Employment from agriculture

3. Source of Pictures: Jonas Ngouhouo
Commodities in trade: Cocoa, banana, coffee, cotton & oil palm
2nd largest foreign exchange resource Cocoa beans weigh
12.5% of export after hydrocarbons (39.6%) in Cameroon
300 000 to 500 000 smallholders holding about 600 000 ha
3 million people directly or indirectly supported in Cameroon
from 296,000tons in 2023 to 640,000tons by 2030: National
ambition to increase domestic agricultural production
The national vision of an emerging and industrialized economy
by 2035 relies on agriculture as well
Agricultural for Cameroon emergence

4. Group 4: sustainable trade systems for smallholder farmers
and local communities
Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun & Thiago Uehara
What is sustainable and inclusive agriculture supply chains for
Cameroon?
Inclusive
decision-making
process
Inclusive
Regulation
Nature-inclusive
agriculture
Interconnection
of the links
Challenges at each
supply chain link
Integrated supply
chains
Gender, vulnerable
groups inclusion

5. Group 4: sustainable trade systems for smallholder farmers
and local communities
Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun & Thiago Uehara
What is sustainable and inclusive agriculture supply chains for
Cameroon?
Source: https://iaas.or.id/an-integrated-mechanism-for-inclusive-future-agriculture/

6. Opportunities: Sustainable Cocoa Committee in Cameroon
(2023 - 2025)
• Actors
• Public and private sectors, Farmers' organizations,
NGOs, research, Technical, and financial partners
• Result of Political Dialogues / Cocoa Talks
• Price
• Traceability
• Forest protection/monitory
• Sustainable production/agroforestry
• Roadmap for deforestation-free cocoa
• Sustainable production
• Sustainable marketing and decent income
• Protection and restoration of forests
• Environmental sustainability
• Community engagement and social inclusion

7. The FODECC
Connects to stakehoders (Fund raising to support the
supply chains)
Support applied research on cocoa and coffee
Producer window/deck: subsidies directly available to
producers in 8 production areas for the distribution of
inputs, the supply of equipment, and the provision of
infrastructure for production.
A system for a participatory policy of subsidizing
producers (40% vs. 60% personal contribution )
Opportunities

8. • To fixe the buying price
• To protect farmers from volatile prices
• Ensure access to quality input on time
• Farmers’ structuration and development
• Optimizig the supply chain length
• Promote the development of niche markets
• Promote technological scaling up
• Fact Dialogues
• Implementation of the Roadmap to a just and
sustainable trade
Ghana Cocoa Board
• 63.6% increase in the
producer price
• Sept 10
Commodities Boards & Fact dialogues & Roadmaps

9. Benefit-sharing
agreements
Opportunities of
local stakeholders to
negotiate with big
companies
www.cacaoofexcellence.org
Niche markets (NM)
NM: $2.83 → $3.15
Coops: $2.27→$2.64
Coxeur: $1.64
CAMEROON
CAFI
PARTNERSHIP
Integrated
Landscape
Management
Capacity Building
Projects
Support
Project (FODECC)
ABS
Cameroon
Madagascar
Namibia
South Africa
INCOME DIVERSIFICATION
INPUTS COST REDUCTION
ACCESS TO MARKETS
20 000 FARMERS
Opportunities: Existing initiatives supporting production & market
SMEs, enterprise
businesses, cooperatives

10. THANK YOU