Bio-diversity

Wild mango (Irvingia spp.) occupies a special place among NTFP high value e addition of area foresti re of Cameroon. A true march v exists for the resource and she s potentialit d am improve significantly the ways d existence of populations in rural areas. Investigations your socio economic on the production and marketing of wild Mango in the departments of M, Movie d, Oc year, Val e Ntem (MEM, 2000), show that the collection of wild mango front s leaves more villages to the for t because of the more and more not noted this resource in the village ts agro-for. More production is essentially e assur mostly by old seed stems, stem d future both rare relics. This has as its corollary, conflict social s li l account s the resource and the anthropic pressure on the Park of Campo Ma year covering 261 443 ha. Also, despite the wild mango, march n economic importance is not always fair and does that benefit very little for the poorest that are the producers. Among the factors responsible for there among other difficult d account s of peasant organizations to documents legal for commercialization, the weakness of the syst me d information on the march, l lack of technical equipment appropriate for processing, the weakness of the capabilities and (d) entrepreneurial spirit within the communities. In the light of threats of d gradation p feels on the resource, especially on l esp this Irvingia spp., the project aims promote the sustainable management of the trees out for ts through the formation of population b n recipients in the techniques of domestication (grafting, layering and cuttings) in partnership with l ICRAF which has developed and maitris these techniques. This project is also in partnership with the Organization local associ framework, development d d e a local micro-business of processing, packaging and marketing of wild mango so qu b n profits add quats provides to local communities target while pr for biodiversity. To meet the standards of legality required, producers will receive trainings ax es on of th my such: the forest and the environment code, the fiscalit of NTFPS, rural entrepreneurship l. To meet quality standards, the project will am improve traditional techniques of processing and packaging and a d Exchange travel will be organised in d other community s/organizations active in the fili re (e.g. Community s Ngoul Madaki, NGO FONJAK). It s will be to train women and provide them with equipment for a better extraction of almond, production and packaging of the p in te wild mango, wild mango and other products powder production d riv s.

Cameroon