More than 10,000 trees in seedbeds in East Cameroon
The people of Kambo-cassi, Hona and Mansa, three villages bordering Deng Deng National Park in the East Cameroon region, have set up three tree nurseries in each locality. This took place from January 22 to February 03, 2025, following training provided by SAILD. The Deng Deng National Park (PNDD) has nineteen villages on its outskirts, […]
West Cameroon: More than 300 books for pupils in Malentouen
On June 06, 2024, the CDDR-SAILD installed classroom libraries at Yakue Dorothée school group, Malentouen. The school in the Noun department, in the West region of Cameroon, has received over 300 books for pupils in the French and English-speaking cycles. The books were donated by the Rural Development Documentation Center of the Support Service for […]
East Cameroon: Farmers take their first steps in apiculture
The populations of Tête d’Eléphant, Liguim and Lom 1 in the department of Lom-et-Djerem, in East Cameroon, benefited from training in modern beekeeping production techniques from May 13 to 22, 2024. A training workshop organized by the Support Service for Local Development Initiatives (SAILD) aims to teach beekeeping, beekeeping production techniques, bee products and the […]
The BIOPAMA project at the heart of reflections at SAILD
The project to optimize conservation of Deng Deng National Park through capacity building of local riverside communities in agroecological practices was the focus of discussions at a monitoring and evaluation meeting on Saturday, May 11, 2024 The main item on the agenda was to review the progress and financial monitoring of the project to optimize […]
SAILD prepares an regional forum on agroecology and an organic agricultural fair
The entire staff of SAILD (Support service for local development initiatives) mobilized this Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at the NGO’s headquarters in the Elig-Essono district of Yaounde to reflect on preparations for the regional forum on agroecology and the national organic agricultural fair to be organized by the institution. Scheduled for November 2024, this is […]
SAILD campaigns for sustainable cocoa without deforestation in Cameroon
SAILD organized a civil society workshop on deforestation-free sustainable cocoa in Cameroon from May 16 to 17, 2024 in Yaounde. Improving understanding and harmonizing the intervention of Cameroonian civil society on the themes of zero deforestation and sustainable cocoa, is the objective of this workshop held from May 16 to 17, 2024. Support Service for […]
Eastern Cameroon: SAILD trains 109 farmers in Agroecology
Farmers from the villages of Tête d’Eléphant, Liguim and Lom 1 received ten days training in sustainable farming techniques. From April 23 to May 02, 2024, 109 people (33, 21 and 55 respectively) from the Liguim, tête éléphant and Lom1 villages in the Lom-et-Djerem department of the East Cameroon have benefited from training in agroecological […]
SAILD shares its agricultural advisory tools and methods
From April 24 to 25, 2024, SAILD took part in a workshop on innovative agricultural advisory methods and tools at the conference room of Jean 23 de Mvolye center in Yaounde. Identifying relevant approaches to agricultural advisory services, for scaling up agricultural innovations: this is the aim of a workshop organized by the Cameroonian Forum […]
Scaling up agroecology in Cameroon
This was the main resolution to emerge from a two-day meeting of SAILD staff in Kribi, Southern Cameroon, to reflect on its approach to promoting agroecology in Cameroon. As part of its year-end 2023 activities, the entire SAILD team, including staff from the Far North and East Cameroon branches, met in Kribi on December 19 […]
Cameroon has its first agroecology promotion network
It is the result of an exciting and participatory process, fueled by the determination of Cameroon’s civil society players to set up a framework favorable to the promotion of agroecology with a view to food sovereignty, the protection of biodiversity and the fight against climate change. The constitutive general assembly of the Network for the […]