Cameroon

Backyard integrated farming proejct

This project, being implemented by the Phytobiotechnology Research Foundation in Bamenda, aims to optimise food production capacity on limited land through an integrated backyard farm approach.  Backyard agro-wastes are to be converted through anaerobic digestion to generate a multiplicity of products which in turn generates income and a cleaner local environment.  Pig, mushroom and poultry wastes will be fed into a low cost plastic digester which generates biogas for cooking, nutrients for raising fruits vegetables and fish ponds and rids the slurry of any pathogens.

Bokwaongo Women Empowerment Project

Recent transformation in Cameroon's economy has profoundly changed the parameters of social development. One significant trend has been the increased burden of poverty on women, which accounts for the the feminisation of poverty in the country, both in qualitative and quantitative terms.

The goal of this project is to assist vulnerable womens' groups from Bokwaongo village in the Southwest Province of Cameroon to generate significant household income and improve their socio-economic status and living conditions. The project has identified four women self-help and common initiative groups and will train them in pig rearing and on strategies to boost their household incomes through marketing.

The revolving funds will be used to buy pigs, distribute these initially to two of the groups, with the piglets produced from these animals being gifted to the members of the remaining groups.