Cameroon

Felicite Sengram, Secretary of the village granary in Mayo Tsanaga area near Maroua, in Cameroon’s Far North province and two other key-holders open the village granary for sales in the lean season. Copyirght:WFP/Jane Howard

 

Villages In Cameroon Find Solution To Yearly Hunger Season

While drought ravages swathes of eastern Africa, on the other side of the continent many communities in Cameroon’s dry north have set up village granaries to help them through the lean season. Supported by WFP, the granaries are mostly run by women.

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Overview

Cameroon is a low-income, food deficit country (LIFDC). It has 16 million inhabitants, with an annual demographic growth rate of 2.8 percent. Cameroon is ranked 144th out of 177 countries in the 2007 Human Development Report. 40.2 percent of its 16 million people live below the poverty line of one US dollar per day of which 52.1 percent are in rural areas.

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Country at a glance 2011
Planned Beneficiaries0
Beneficiary needs (mt)11,862
Beneficiary needs ($US)12,884,561
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