Growing at home for health
Home gardens increase the off-season vegetable supply and contribute to healthier diets in Cameroon’s far north.
Home gardens increase the off-season vegetable supply and contribute to healthier diets in Cameroon’s far north.
Activities to improve the nutritional quality of diets for young children reach significant numbers of people in Cameroon.
The World Vegetable Center is pleased to announce that 12 vegetable varieties—including 9 traditional vegetables—have been registered in Cameroon’s official catalog of varieties.
How growing and eating vegetables changes lives and livelihoods in Cameroon’s Far north region.
When cocoa falters, vegetable crops can provide a stable food supply and increase income.
Training adults to ensure children get a healthy start in life.
Cameroon’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER) and the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 16 August 2018, officially inking a partnership to work together on strengthening vegetable seed systems, mobilizing and training smallholders to produce certified onion seed, and increasing the supply of traditional African vegetables in the country.
At the 6th Annual Week of Scientific Research and Innovation in Yaounde, Cameroon in late February, a WorldVeg team had the opportunity to demonstrate their activities to Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation (MINRESI) Secretary General Rebecca Madeleine Ebelle Etamè, MINRESI’s Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation Dr. Madeleine Tchuinte, and Director General of the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) Dr. Noe Win.
The experience of WorldVeg in Cameroon has sparked interest for an initiative to build seed systems in the Central African Republic.
Impressed by what he learned from a prior visit with the WorldVeg team, the President of Cameroon asked ten parliamentarians from the north and far north regions of the country to visit WorldVeg activities in Yaoundé on July 7.