Farmers in Cameroon

Farmers from Lipenja 2 village. The people of Lipenja 2 strongly oppose the large scale oil palm plantations.

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Small Scale Oil Palm Plantations in Cameroon

Oil palm plantations in Cameroon cover a total of 60,000 ha, but in 2011 the government received applications for the opening of more than 1,000,000 ha of new plantations. As most of the land available currently is natural forest, oil palm expansion is becoming a major threat to Cameroon’s as well as the rest of Congo Basin's rainforest. The farmers in some villages in Cameroon don't believe in industrial scale palm oil production and have started to run small scale plantations with the objective of providing palm oil to local markets. More and more oil palm farmers avoid selling their oil palm fruits to PAMOL (the big state owned company in Mundemba) and prefer sell it to local artisanal mills.

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Unique identifier: GP11H5

Type: Image

Shoot date: 17/02/2012

Locations: Africa, Cameroon

Size: 5616px × 3744px 18.30 MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)