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Table 15. Market Destination of Biodiversity Products Products From Biodiversity Market Destination Remarks Agricultural Products Oil palm product Rubber Banana Cocoa Coffee Cotton Cassava Plantains Yams Cocoyams Maize Fruits, Vegetables Local Markets, Europe, USA Europe Europe, USA, Japan Europe, USA, Japan Local markets, Europe Gabon, Central African Republic Gabon, Equatorial Guinea Gabon, Equatorial Guinea Europe, Gabon Equatorial Guinnea, Nigeria Local markets, Gabon Local markets, Gabon, Nigeria Mostly informal ,, ,, ,, Europe, Asia, USA Forestry/ Wildlife Products Poles for building Timber-logs are processed NTFPs including medicinal plants Animal trophies Birds ( parrots) Livestock Products Goats, sheep, chicken Meat milk Hides and skins Smoked fish Fresh fish Traditional Products Plants for healing Animals for healing Cultural/Sacred products Nigeria, USA, Asia, Europe, USA Europe, Niogeria Local market Local market Nigeria, Europe Local markets Nigeria, Local market Local market Traditional healers Traditional healers Source: Compiled by Bokwe from Markets and External trade information 2008 ,, ,, ,, Box 2: Importance of Biodiversity to Cameroon Economy - ecosystems services, species, varieties/breeds are of particular importance to the nation. - Biodiversity contributed to 34% of the GDP in 1994 - Biodiversity employs directly 82% of the country’s working population. - 65% are engaged in crop production - 30% are engaged in animal husbandry - 79.8 % of all house-hold use plant products for domestic energy Source: MINEF (1997) Important areas of biodiversity to the Cameroon economy contained include the following: 1. A source of raw materials for the country’s industries in agriculture, forestry, animal industries, fisheries; ( see Box 2). 2. Contributes to the balance of payments in state budgets, ensuring the country’s food security and generates foreign and budgetary resources; 3. A measure for alleviating poverty through direct and indirect employment especially with the rural population; 4. For building with local materials, and energy supplies; At regional level, large agro - industries working with genetic resources in Cameroon 24
employ many people at a large scale. C.D.C alone employs about 15000 Cameroonians next to government. Other agro-industrial complexes that employs are: SOCAPALM, PAMOL Table 16. Employment Rate of Some Biodiversity- Based Activities Structure Crop/Sector Workers C.D.C SOCAPALM PAMOL UNVDA SOSUCAM SEMRY HEVECAM CHOCOCAM CAMEROON TEA ESTATE DEL MONTE FORMALLY: INFORMALLY FISHING COMPANIES SAFARI HUNTING/ARTISANAL ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Source: MINADER 2008 Oil palm, Rubber Oil palm industry Oil palm Rice Sugar cane Rice Rubber Cocoa Tea Banana Forestry Fishery Hunting Carving, Weaving Cattle breeding 15000 unavailable ,, ,, ,, ,, 5.000 ? 2.500 2.000 300 000 jobs 240 000 jobs 30 % of population Still from the economic perspective, Cameroon’s biodiversity has made the country derive the following advantages: - Foreign assistance: Financial and technical assistance has continued to come to Cameroon. Cameroon through multilateral and international cooperation, technical and financial assistance for the management of biological resources. The main agencies and organizations have demonstrated this concern in the various sectoral domains (Table 16). Table 17. Financial Institutions Attracted to Biodiversity Activities Nº Biodiversity Sector Financial Institutions Technical Assistance Body 1 AGRICULTURE World Bank, ADB, First FAO, WFP Bank 2 FORESTRY World Bank GTZ, WWF, IUCN, ITTO, ATO EU, SNV, COMIFAC 3 WILDLIFE World Bank WCI, WWF,IUCN, OMS, Birdlife International 4 FISHERIES World Bank FAO 5 LIVESTOCK Islamic Bank FAO 6 TOURISM ( Ecotourism ) WTO 7 ENVIRONMENT World Bank UNEP, GEF, FAO, UNDP, UNESCO, CARPE, IUCN 8 TRADITIONAL MEDICINE Cooperative Societies Unity Cooperative society Bank Banks - 9 CULTURE Government 10 BIODIVERSITY EDUCATION UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNEP, UNDP, IUCN GEF 11 RESEARCH GEF IRAD, IITA 12 BIOTECHNOLOGY/ BIOSAFETY GEF UNIVERSITIES, MONSANTO Source: Bokwe, Information from various stakeholders. From the information in Table 17. Cameroon’s biodiversity has continued to attract huge technical assistance and financial investments. 25
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