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SHARPening Local Agro-industries Partnerships in the Mount Cameroon and Mokoko-Onge Landscape

Grantee Name: Environmental Governance Institute

Hotspot
Guinean Forests of West Africa
Location
Cameroon
Amount
$11,533
Dates
Sep 2018 – Sep 2019
Keywords
Biodiversity mainstreaming, Capacity building, Habitat conservation and management, Livelihoods, Private sector
The SHARPening Local - Agro-industries Partnerships in the Mount Cameroon and Mokoko-Onge Landscape project focuses on reducing the impacts of the oil palm value chain on high conservation value areas in Mount Cameroon and Mokok-Onge forest key biodiversity areas and improve oil palm productivity through; technical and organizational capacity building, intensification agriculture based on replanting, improved extraction rates and use of high yield seedlings and farm inputs and the development of a functional, credible win-win partnership model between the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) and oil palm smallholders’ cooperatives in Tiko Area Oil Palm Farmers’ Cooperative – TAOPF-COOP and Bamusso Mainland. Maintain the integrity of the Mount Cameroon and Mokoko-Onge Key Biodiversity Area through reduction of impacts of the oil palm value chain on these HCVs.
Strategic Direction : 2 Mainstream biodiversity conservation into public policy and private sector practice in the nine conservation corridors, at local, sub-national and national levels

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