Dynamique récente des plantations individuelles de palmier à huile au Cameroun

Abstract

Smallholders schemes started in the Seventies, with the help of Public Funds. Twenty years later, a new dynamics can be observed in Cameroon. Due to several factors – the economic crisis, falling salaries, a decline in cocoa purchase prices, etc. – this movement has been impulse by new actors, mainly urban, mostly non estate residents and poorly organized. Many of them produce and sell crude palm oil instead of ffb. Beyond this apparent success – all investment requirements are self – financed, without any bank loans – strong competition between smallholders, large oil mills and imported oils can be predicted in a near future. There is an urgent need for a new organization of all the partners involved in the palm oil sector. © John Libbey Eurotext 2000.