Stop Malnutrition and Infant Mortality in Cameroon

In the last quarter, the 'Stop malnutrition and Infant Mortality in Cameroon' project continued to empower rural women to improve on their entrepreneur and agricultural skills. Workshops were held to train 50 women on agric-bussiness practices that could promote agricultural productivity and household income. The 50 women were selected from 50 household in the Bonakada community to benefit from training and support in the pilot phase of the of the market driven agriculture system. The selected beneficiaries were then engage in a three day training workshop. The main aim of the workshop was to clearly elaborate the concept of a market driving agricultural system to the women and how it can practically be implemented. Participants were engage in discussion about how they could transform the already practiced subsistence agriculture system into a market driving agriculture system. Discussions were focused on the choices of crops to consider while engaging in the market driven agriculture system. Each participant was giving the opportunity to present what ideas and thoughts about the model. The main ideas raised included the sustainability of the imodel and the availability of the market if they invest in the model. The participants were assured that the concept is very participatory and easy to replicate and offer little or no fear of the unknown. By the end of the 3 days workshops all participants were certain on the type agricultural product they wanted to invest in. The various crops selected by the women included pepper crop (7), yam crop (10), cassava crop (7), tomatoes crop (5), maize crop (16) and plantain (5).