There are high income generating agricultural endeavors that need huge financial capital and human work force to thrive. Cultivation of melons, cassava, plantains among others usually need large parcels of land that are not easily available especially for women.
Women continue to suffer from customary land reforms that make it hard for women to own land in Cameroon. Though over 80% of rural women in Cameroon engage in farming, the lands in most cases are not owned by them. They are often rented lands meant for low scale subsistence farming.
It thus requires high level intervention and synergy for most women to actually own land.
Survivors Network SN Africa is currently engaging a high agricultural project in the East region of Cameroon aimed at giving survivors of gender based violence and human trafficking a huge business potential and to help them attain self-reliance.
“As at now, we have engaged in to a massive Agricultural project in the East Region of Cameroon, where we cultivate food crops like cassava, maize, soya beans, plantains, melon seeds, and, we use survivors/vulnerable women from the cultivation stage to the distribution stage when the crops will be turned to finish products (cassava flour, corn flour, cassava flakes, etc) for consumption. We are using this; still as a strategy to enable survivors sustain themselves and become self-reliant.” Francisca Mbuhli says.
