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Putting food security and forest and disaster monitoring, partnership reporting online platform ( # Ocean Action 23237 ) progress report first in Bamenda, North West region Cameroon. Presented by ACHIRIMBI NGWA JOSEPH-April 23, 2017 at 8:10.\r\nA Government School Mfonta, Bafut Subdivision. H/M: Mrs. NJUMNJWI RAHEL AFANUI. Telephone: (+237) 674605166. On the 23rd April 2017, a seriously wind destroyed a Government School Mfonta, Bafut subdivision ( I here attached the disaster Pictures and address for the Government School Mfonta, Bafut Subdivision H/M ). In Mfonta, Bafut Subdivision farming is the main source of income for people in this area. They run palms trees, plantains, cacao, fishing farm besides cassava/food farms, and sell it abroad. In cacao plantations also grow valuable trees such as the Iroko and fruits for local consumption like pineapple, oranges, mangoes, fishing farming, and avocados. As an UNAIDS Human Rights mangrove partnership monitoring, reporting online platform, I am often challenged when I monitored and reported out against the disaster exploitation of North West region continent natural resources, disguised as development. All too often, this simply creates huge profits for international corporations, to the detriment of local communities and the environment. \" But what\'s the alternative? people ask me. This is an an alternative. I am sitting in a crowded and noisy room in Bamenda, in the North West region Cameroon, where community representatives are discussing how to increase the productivity of local agriculture, to ensure their livelihoods while protecting the forests on which they depend. This mangrove monitoring, reporting partnership online platform ( # Ocean Action 23237 ) is being led by Indigenous Training Programme Association ) a Cameroonian NGO, which aims to improve current agricultural methods through monitored and reported food security situation and nutritional status on the local populations in the North West region, Bamenda Cameroon. 80 percent of the population of this region line in rural communities. People make their livings from farming cacao, palm oil and other crops, hunting, and collecting non-timber forest products such as nuts and bush mangos. But the amount of available land is becoming less and less, as large corporations move in to this fertile region and take control of vast tracts of land for logging, mining and agro-industrial plantations. This trend is worrying. \" If we just grow cash crops for export, what will be left for us to eat?\" asked the representative of a local women\'s NGO in the Bamenda, North West region. Since the most vulnerable of the subsistence farmers are women, who depend on the land to provide food for their families, they will bear the brunt of this change. One such industrial plantation is proposed by Cameroon Government based corporation Farms, which plans to destroy 73,000 hectares of rainforest, home to more than 14, 000 people. This has been met with opposition by local communities, who are fearful of losing their lands and livelihoods. Despite claiming that its palm oil plantation being created in the name of \" development \" , project would have a devastating impact on the forest and the lives of the people who depend on it. In contrast, the development model proposed by ACDIC demonstrates how cacao or palm oil can be cultivated in agroforestry systems that have the advantage of also being able to supply many non-timber forest products and vegetables, while maintaining the forest canopy. This ensures food security, while protecting the natural environment. Industry players and investors coming to Africa must commit to clear policies that respect of the rights and livelihood of local communities, ensure the protection of natural forest, in a way that is open and transparent. Taking part in this workshop gives me hope that as a continent, we can establish our own development path, which puts our people and environment first. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n?
