Each Electoral Col- lege had three can- didates competing and the exercise brought staff from ICRAF offices in Nkolbisson and Bamenda. To ensure the smooth run- ning of the exercise, two labour inspectors, Madam Messobot Emma and Mr Sama Ivo both of the Centre Provincial Delegation of Labour and Social security were on hand to supervise and to make sure the labour rules are respected. The rule of the game was explained to all the candidates and the other staff present. Those who were less than six months old in ICRAF could not vote because the labour law in Cameroon say so
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Allanblackia: bilingual monthly newsletter – ICRAF West & Central Africa Region – September
Each Electoral Col- lege had three can- didates competing and the exercise brought staff from ICRAF offices in Nkolbisson and Bamenda. To ensure the smooth run- ning of the exercise, two labour inspectors, Madam Messobot Emma and Mr Sama Ivo both of the Centre Provincial Delegation of Labour and Social security were on hand to supervise and to make sure the labour rules are respected. The rule of the game was explained to all the candidates and the other staff present. Those who were less than six months old in ICRAF could not vote because the labour law in Cameroon say so
Allanblackia floribunda Oliver: ethnobotanical potential and prospects for conservation and sustainable use in Cameroon
Allanblackia: bilingual monthly newsletter – ICRAF West & Central Africa Region – September
Each Electoral Col- lege had three can- didates competing and the exercise brought staff from ICRAF offices in Nkolbisson and Bamenda. To ensure the smooth run- ning of the exercise, two labour inspectors, Madam Messobot Emma and Mr Sama Ivo both of the Centre Provincial Delegation of Labour and Social security were on hand to supervise and to make sure the labour rules are respected. The rule of the game was explained to all the candidates and the other staff present. Those who were less than six months old in ICRAF could not vote because the labour law in Cameroon say so
Agroforestry as a pathway out of poverty: Agroforestry is providing income, better nutrition and traditional medicines that help millions of poor peopel around the world take a step out of poverty
Few poor households have any capital, except their land. Planting trees can provide an income, build up capital and be a first step on the pathway out of poverty. Growing trees works well with growing crops and raising livestock in poor, rural households. Trees improve soils, boost harvests and provide feed for the animals. Bigger harvests and healthier stock can lead to a surplus that can be traded. Many tree products – fruit, nuts, timber, fuel wood, leaves and bark – can be sold in local markets, nationally and even internationally.
Allanblackia parviflora A. Chev.
Protologue Veg. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franc. 5: 163 (1909). Family Clusiaceae (Guttiferae) Chromosome number 2n — 56 Vernacular names Vegetable tallow tree (En). Ouotéra (Fr). Origin and geographic distribution Allan-blackia parviflor occurs in the forest zone from Guinea and Sierra Leone to Ghana. Uses The seeds of Allanblackia parviflora yield a solid fat used in cooking. Recently, the international food industry became interested in the fat as a natural solid component for margarines and similar products. The seeds are used as bait in traps for small game. In Ghana latex from the bark is used as pitch. The wood, called ‘lacewood’ in Liberia, is locally used, e.g. in house construction for walls, doors and window frames. In Ghana small trees are used as poles, pit props and bridge piles. The trees are often retained when land is cleared for cocoa production. Because of their relatively small crown, they are valued as shade trees. Small twigs are used as chew sticks or tooth picks. The pounded bark is rubbed on the body to relieve pain. In Côte d’Ivoire a decoction of the fruit pulp is used to relieve elephantiasis of the scrotum.
Allanblackia species: a model for the domestication of high potential tree crops in Africa
Allanblackia is a dioecious multipurpose tree genus of the family Clusiaceae occurring in the equatorial rainforests of Africa extending from Tanzania to Sierra Leone. Besides its traditional main use for producing edible oil from its seeds, local communities use Allanblackia species as medicine and timber. A few years ago, the food processing industry discovered Allanblackia oil with its specific exceptional characteristics as a new ingredient in the sustainable manufacture of products such as margarine. Currently the potential market demand for Allanblackia oil (estimated as over 100,000 tons/year) cannot be met by harvesting fruits of wild Allanblackia species ( A. floribunda in Nigeria, A. parviflora in Ghana and A. stuhlmannii in Tanzania), which yields only 200 tons/year. To address this and the challenges of over -exploitation and decreasing Allanblackia abundance in the forests, ICRAF and its partners from the public and private sector are domesticating the species since 2002 using participatory tree domestication approach. The program includes community sensitization, explorat ion, participatory selections of superior mother trees, conservation in field genebanks, development of agroforestry systems with Allanblackia and market development. Secondly, the program consists of developing asexual and sexual propagation protocols, wh ich are necessary to overcome challenges in multiplication such as seed dormancy, long juvenile phase and high variability of desired traits. Experiments are mainly performed in ‘Rural Resource Centres’ (RRCs), which serve as diffusion hubs for new technol ogies, germplasm and knowledge. RRCs have their own tree nurseries, motherblocks and demonstration plots, and train farmers in Allanblackia propagation and cultivation techniques. In addition, RRCs support private satellite nurseries in the villages nearby to reach remote farmers. The domestication programme of Allanblackia through public -private partnership and participatory tree domestication could serve as a model for domestication of other underutili zed African tree species of high economic potential.
Allanblackia: bilingual monthly newsletter – ICRAF West & Central Africa Region – September
Each Electoral Col- lege had three can- didates competing and the exercise brought staff from ICRAF offices in Nkolbisson and Bamenda. To ensure the smooth run- ning of the exercise, two labour inspectors, Madam Messobot Emma and Mr Sama Ivo both of the Centre Provincial Delegation of Labour and Social security were on hand to supervise and to make sure the labour rules are respected. The rule of the game was explained to all the candidates and the other staff present. Those who were less than six months old in ICRAF could not vote because the labour law in Cameroon say so
Allanblackia: bilingual monthly newsletter – ICRAF West & Central Africa Region – September
Each Electoral Col- lege had three can- didates competing and the exercise brought staff from ICRAF offices in Nkolbisson and Bamenda. To ensure the smooth run- ning of the exercise, two labour inspectors, Madam Messobot Emma and Mr Sama Ivo both of the Centre Provincial Delegation of Labour and Social security were on hand to supervise and to make sure the labour rules are respected. The rule of the game was explained to all the candidates and the other staff present. Those who were less than six months old in ICRAF could not vote because the labour law in Cameroon say so
Alternate tenure and enterprise models in Cameroon: community forests in the context of community rights and forest landscapes
Cameroon’s forests are estimated to comprise 19,631,000 ha of which 4 percent are reserved for communities and the rest are allocated to reserves or private commercial timber operations. Within Central Africa, Cameroon is considered a leader in forest and resource-related development policies. It was the first country in Central Africa to allocate concessions through a competitive bidding process, allow communities to request the setting aside of areas as “community forest”, create a zoning plan for the dense forests in the Southern parts of the country, and to put substantial taxes on access to resource extraction areas. Cameroon’s significant forest zone population lends itself to the development of SMFEs (small and medium forest enterprises) and community enterprises that complement the large-scale, mainly export-oriented, concession forest industry