Tita Foundjem CF in cocoa landscapes 02042024.pdf

Community Forests at the Frontiers of Cocoa Production Basins: State, challenges and opportunities for riverain communities - Divine Tita Foundjem, CIFOR-IRCAF
Community forestry enterprises in the Congo Basin
Seminar
Chaired by Verina Ingram & Serge Piabou (Wagenignen UR)
10.00 -13.00 2 April 2024
NCountR Room, Impulse, Wageningen CMAPUS & online
doctoral Defense Serge Piabuo
“Community Forest Enterprises (CFEs) as successful social enterprises: Empirical Evidence from Cameroon”
16.00 – 17.30 2 April 2024
Omnia Auditorium, Wageningen campus & online
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1. ASCOKYB ForestForward
Divine Foundjem Tita et al
Seminar presentation: Community forestry enterprises in the Congo Basin
2 APRIL 2024
Community Forests at the Frontiers of Cocoa
Production Basins: State, challenges and
opportunities for riverain communities

2. Background Cocoa Production
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•Production
•Current ~300 000 tons
•Target: 600 000 tons by 2025
•Yield ~ 300-500 Kg/ha
•Needs for Innovation and Innovation Support
Services
▪Past and Ongoing Public and private initiatives to
boost production and improve livelihoods
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Area harvested Yield Production
Figure1.1:Trendsincocoayields,total
productionandcultivatedarea
between1961and2021in
Cameroon
Source:FAOSTAT(April2023)

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Community forestry
has grown rapidly
since it was
introduced to
Cameroon in 1994,
with currently ~~400
CFs covering an
area of
approximately 1.8
million ha
Some Active others
inactive
Background
CF

4. State of the knowledge ASCOKYB community forest in Ntuimunicipality
❖ForestOperations:60illegalsawingsitesinventoriedin2023
Figure 3: : Map of illegal artisanal logging sites in FC ASCOKYB

5. Transforming Lives and Landscapes with Trees
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❑CF
Micro zoning of ASCOKYB Community Forest
Fig4: Micro zoning of ASCOKYB CF
Landuses Size(ha)Proportion(%)
Forest 1185 26,80
Savannah 217 4,91
Fallow 5 0,11
Farmland(cocoa) 3006 67,98
Rockoutcrop 9 0,20
TOTAL 4422 100
Tab5:Land use of the ASCOKYB CF

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Termina glaucescens
Trichoxyha arborea Terminalia superba
Musanga cecropioides
Celtis sp
Persea americana
Bridelia scleroneura
Pycnanthus angolensis
Dacryodes edulis
Mansonia altissima
Albizia glaberrima Musa paradisiaca
Milicia excelsa
Pterygota macrocarpa
Triplochyton scleroxylon
Cordia africana
Chrysophyllum ubanguiense
Steculia rhinopetala
Elais guinnensis
Petersianthus macrocarpus
Albizia glaberrima
Klaneathus gaboniae
Ricinodendron heudelotii
Dasylepsis racenusa
Alstonia boonei
Berlinia immuculota
Amphimas pterocarpoides
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Floristic diversity in the ASCOKYB CF
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F. exotiques
Forestiers
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Forêt Secondaire Jachère SAF Savane
Stocks de Carbone (
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arbres(T.C/ha)
Figure 4: Carbon storage by type of land use
The creation of cocoa
plantations leads to a
sharp reduction in
carbon stocks in the
biomass compared to
secondary forests.
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-Identical distribution of species regardless of their diameter in secondary forests ;
-56% of trees in agroforests are "large" trees with a diameter greater than 30 cm
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Tree density in different land uses

9. Ranking of ecosystem services in the ASCOKYB FC according to levels of
importance and dependence on farmers' activities.
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10. Grand Mbam produces 25% of Cameroon’s cocoa

11. Objectives of ASCOKYB to promote an
integrated approach to community forest
management from a multipurpose perspective
wherein climate mitigation and adaptation are
addressed alongside the original livelihood
and forest management objectivesof
Community Forest management.
•The pressure for land conversion in
community forests is considerable,
especially given the State's ambition to
grow its annual cocoa production and
•Economic benefits of community forest
management are often unclear and
therefore a barrier to full community
participation especially women .

12. Transforming Lives and Landscapes with Trees
Specifically:
➢Prevent further conversion of forests for the production of
cocoa.
➢Promote long-term productivity of cocoa in environmentally
suitable areas with a vision of bettering farmers incomes
➢Develop new and strengthen management of existing cocoa-
based agroforestry systems in and in the buffer zones outside
ASCOKYB community forest.
➢Develop technical and business capacity of community forest
groups towards viable community forest enterprises.
➢Develop capacities for participatory monitoring, reporting, and
verification for REDD

13. ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF NURSERIES
06 villages out of 8 were identified as sites to host
nurseries (Ossoumbé, Endama, Bikong, Yalongo,
Nguillaand Lada),
More than 10 species to be integrated into cocoa
farms have been identified in a participatory
manner according to gender, their market value and
compatibility with cocoa including :
Citrus volkameriana, Avocado (Perseaamericana),
Bush mango (Irvingiawombolu), Njansang
(Ricinodendronheudelotii), Safou(Dacryodes
Edulis), Kola (Cola acuminata), etc.

14. DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN’S ENTERPRISES using Performance
Based Finance
➢03 groups of women have been selected to be
supported in the development of alternative
incomegeneratingactivities
•01 group involved in the collection and sale of
Njansang;
•02 groups involved in the production and
processing of cassava

15. Transforming Lives and Landscapes with Trees
Funding provided by : TelcarCocoa/ Cargil& IDH -the Sustainable Trade Initiative