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April 24-25, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada
JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE & CLIMATIC CHANGE, 2019 VOLUME 10 | DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-056 SCIENTIFIC TRACK| DAY 1
Rural women
innovative agro forestry
management systems as
a basis for sustainable
agriculture in Cameroon
Francis Njuakom Nchii
Community Development
Volunteers for Technical
Assistance, Cameroon
T his paper presents an analysis
of various women locally
led innovative agroforestry
management systems in
one forested community in
Cameroon. It describes various
locally generated sustainable
agro-forestry conservations
and tree management systems.
It explains that a gap exists
between locally led and
external management forest
agricultural systems. In the
externally supported activities,
the concept of participation
is used to indicate that local
women are participating in the
implementation of innovative
agro-forestry best practices that
ensure and support sustainable
agricultural best practices in
the local communities. On the
basis of these findings, the study
identifies three actor categories,
important for consideration in
sustainable livelihood support
agriculture; i.e. local farmers,
village extension agricultural
workers and supervisors. The
relations between these village
agriculture extension actor
categories constitute a firm
foundation for community forest
management and development
for replicable sustainable
agricultural best practices. The
paper also focuses on forest
indigenous people’s limited
understanding of climate change
impacts on the environment
and effects on agriculture
and food security. It equally
contributes to mainstreaming
local women’s adaptation to
sustainable farming practices,
sharing experiences of agro-
forestry conservation efforts and
activities that promote positive
results, outcomes and impacts
result in oriented experiences
that can be replicated in other
communities using local farmers
as main actors in sustainable
agriculture and livelihood food
security adaptation. The paper
further explains the importance
of developing working
relationships and networks with
government institutions, forest
conservation and agricultural
organizations in collaboration
with forested people and
communities. The paper
concludes that local forested
people and communities can
educate their local populations
on how to use their local ideas
and initiatives for optimum
adaptation to community agro-
forestry management practices
that can encourage and support
sustainable agriculture and
ensure long term food security.
Biography
Francis N. Njuakom is President/CEO
of IAFCCC-CDVTA Network Alliance; a
programme that supports disadvantaged
forested communities, through biodiversity
conservation and sustainable livelihoods,
through fighting deforestation and climate
change, to building economic opportunities
and better working conditions for rural
people. The Alliance provides urgent solutions
to environmental and social challenges. With
over 22 years in development, he coordinates
Nouvelle Planete Swiss environment projects
in Cameroon. He is a Director on the IFA
Board in Toronto. He has coordinated major
development projects by funding agencies
including the Department for International
Development (DfID). Mr. Njuakom was
awarded the Sheila McKechnie International
Award in 2008 by British Prime Minister,
the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, at Number
10 Downing Street. He is a Knight of the
Cameroon National Order of Valour. Widely
travelled, Mr. Njuakom has delivered keynote
addresses at major world conferences on
climate, environment, agriculture and social
care.