Publications scientifiques
P. Mounjouenpou
Eric Joël Nossi
P. Mgome
Simon Bassanaga
S. A. Maboune Tetmoun
D. Achukwi
Noé Woïn
Advances in life sciences
Women in the subdivisions of Mbalmayo and Mbangassina, Cameroon are important in the cocoa value chain. At the same time, Women and children are the most suffering of poverty, malnutrition, food insecurity in rural area. Normally, women should be able to benefit from these activities, but are unable to do so, due to inadequacies in capacity building to transform cocoa in a way that can sustain both resources and people. Strengthening capacities of women cocoa-farmers is underscored to be central in ensuring sustainable solutions to the problem of malnutrition, food insecurity and declining income of cocoa farmers, as well as empower female leadership skills. This study consists to build capacities of women cocoa farmers of Mbalmayo and Mbangassina regions for sustainable improvement of their livelihoods. Through field trips, meeting with village groupings and inquiries from individuals and groups, 185 women were interviewed and trained on the manufacture of cocoa butter, cocoa powder and soy-chocolate drink. Cocoa butter was among others, the most adopted innovative product, followed by cocoa powder and soy-chocolate drink. Due to that training, women have become more efficient in their household management. She have started generate more income due to the commercialization of the surplus of process product, and also contribute to the household charges. This study highlighted some of challenges affecting livelihoods of women cocoa farmers which are mainly the availability of cocoa beans because cocoa farm belongs to men, and the problem of inadequate material for local transformation.
