The World Bank will make a new disbursement to Cameroon to combat the food crisis in five regions, as part of the Emergency Project to Combat the Food Crisis (Pulcca). The beneficiary regions are Adamaoua, the East, the North-West, the South-West and the Far North. This is an envelope of 100 million euros, or 55 billion CFA francs. At least this is what emerges from an audience granted on November 18 by the Minister of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Dr Taïga, to the new director of operations of the World Bank in Cameroon, Sidonie Jaffrin. It has just led a mission to support the implementation of Pulcca on the ground, more precisely in the five regions concerned, which allowed it to get a closer look at reality. It emerged from this hearing that the preparatory activities for the start of the project are progressing calmly and that it should be effective from the first quarter of 2024.
« The project is starting, but the activities should be well planned before their implementation among needy populations. All teams are mobilized to reach the populations », indicated Dr Taïga, in comments relayed on the Minepia Facebook account. For this purpose, the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries will use implementing agents such as the Northern Livestock Development Fund (CDEN), the Northern Livestock Development Fund (CDEN), North West (CDEN, the Maritime Fishing Development Fund (CDPM) and the Maritime Artisanal Fishing Development Mission of Cameroon (MIDEPECAM), for the implementation of the project, with an anchor on the development of fishing activities ‘breeding.
Moreover, in this envelope of 55 billion CFA francs, 13 billion are intended to finance livestock farming. Concretely, this involves providing support to 7,500 breeders through provision of equipment and production inputs for pork, poultry, table eggs, small ruminants, honey and milk. In the same vein, 14,000 producers in the fish and aquaculture sectors will also be supported thanks to this funding.
It is important to remember that the Pulcca aims to urgently respond to the mitigation of the short-term impacts of food and nutritional insecurity, as well as its medium-term factors to strengthen economic, climatic and community resilience in the North, Far North, Adamaoua, North West, South West and East Regions.
