the factors of production and their marketing, inadequate market system vis-à-vis the
agricultural calendar, isolation of production basins, poor mastery of weather vagaries, and
non-sustainable management and use of forest, wildlife resources and non-timber products.
410- In a bid to address the situation, the State undertook reforms to ensure the availability of
foodstuffs and their accessibility to the people.
A: Ensuring Availability of Foodstuffs
411- Such availability may be examined at both the quantitative and qualitative levels.
1: Quantitative Availability of Foodstuffs
412- The agricultural development strategy that falls in line with the modernization of
agriculture and livestock focused on updating the Rural Sector Development Strategy259 in
April 2017, in order to align it on the new guiding instruments of the national economic
policy such as the GESP, with a view to optimising agricultural potentials. In addition, the
Food Security and Nutrition Strategic Review in Cameroon was presented in March 2017 the
goal of which is to identify the challenges hampering the achievement of the “Zero Hunger by
2030” Goal.
413- Besides, in 2017, Government decided to restructure the agricultural sector following an
audit that revealed dispersion and inconsistency in the implementation of multiple
programmes and projects260 aimed at enhancing competitiveness of agricultural value chains.
414- In a bid to draw up an inventory of the livestock sector, a General Agricultural and
Livestock Census in Cameroon was ordered by Decree No. 2015/292 of 29 June 2015 for a
period of 36 months to provide a correct livestock map of Cameroon based in particular, on
reliable, relevant and sufficiently disaggregated structural statistics on all livestock
exploitations and their environment, and to create a database of same.
415- With a view to consolidating factors of production, budgetary allocations to the Ministry
in charge of Agriculture and Rural Development were on a steady increase up till 2016. Thus,
the budget increased from CFAF88,841,000,000261 in 2013 to CFAF98,300,000,000262 in
2014, CFAF108,771,070,000263 in 2015, CFAF110,162,000,000264 in 2016, then dropped to
CFAF109,876,579,000265 in 2017 and CFAF86,612,945,000266 in 2018. In 2014, the major
agricultural value chains received an allocation of CFAF9,526,000,000267 of which
CFAF4,083,000,000268 was allocated to cash crops and CFAF5,443,000,000269 to food crops.
In 2016, the cumulative budgetary allocations represented 3.52% of the State budget as
against 3.7%270 in 2015.
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Dates back to 2005
Thus, 15 projects out of the 28 audited were dissolved, 11 new projects including the Project of Support to the
Production of Quality Plant Material (PAPMVQ) exclusively dedicated to the production of plant material for all
the speculations created, 4 programmes renewed, with a amendment of their mandates and an adjustment of
certain denominations, while the specific mandates of another were maintained.
261
About 135,635,114. 50 Euros.
262
About 150,076,335. 88 Euros.
263
About 166,062,702.29 Euros.
264
About 168 186 260 Euros.
265
About 167 750 502.2 Euros.
266
About 132 233 504 Euros.
267
About 14,543,511. 45 Euros.
268
About 6,233,587. 79 Euros.
269
About 8,309,923.66 Euros.
270
In this regard, the State undertook to allocate 10% of budgetary resources to the agricultural sector for the
achievement of an agricultural growth rate of at least 6% per year. See 2015 Report, §553 and 556.
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