[ Crise caféière et déclin des coopératives agricoles à l’Ouest Cameroun: La difficile relance de la Coopérative Agricole des Planteurs de la Menoua (CAPLAME) ]
Volume 19, Issue 3, February 2017, Pages 668–680
Guillaume Hensel Fongang Fouepe1, Barthelemy NGUEKENG2, and Urcil-Papito KENFACK ESSOUGONG3
1 Department of Rural Socio-Economics and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences, University of Dschang, Cameroon
2 Programme d’Amélioration de la Compétitivité des Exploitations Familiales Agropastorales, Cellule Départementale de Menoua, Ministère de l’Agriculture et du Développement Rural, Dschang, Cameroon
3 Département de Vulgarisation Agricole et Sociologie Rurale, Université de Dschang, Faculté d’Agronomie et de Sciences Agricoles, Dschang, Cameroon
Original language: French
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This article focuses on adaptation and revival strategies of an agricultural cooperative (CAPLAME) in West Cameroon following the coffee crisis and their impacts on its performances. The study is based on survey using questionnaires with 74 producers and 12 employees. Our results show that, the strategies set up include: diversification of incomes sources and the signature of convention with government. These strategies are insufficient and inadequate for a revival though they permit a reduction of the cooperative financial deficit. Likewise, they have not improved its social performances and within the coffee sector. CAPLAME has to rethink its identity and activities. She has also to rethink its relationship with members and set up new strategies in order to impulse a positive dynamics at the level of its performances.
Author Keywords: Agricultural cooperative, Strategy, Viability, Coffee crisis, Cameroon.
Volume 19, Issue 3, February 2017, Pages 668–680
Guillaume Hensel Fongang Fouepe1, Barthelemy NGUEKENG2, and Urcil-Papito KENFACK ESSOUGONG3
1 Department of Rural Socio-Economics and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences, University of Dschang, Cameroon
2 Programme d’Amélioration de la Compétitivité des Exploitations Familiales Agropastorales, Cellule Départementale de Menoua, Ministère de l’Agriculture et du Développement Rural, Dschang, Cameroon
3 Département de Vulgarisation Agricole et Sociologie Rurale, Université de Dschang, Faculté d’Agronomie et de Sciences Agricoles, Dschang, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This article focuses on adaptation and revival strategies of an agricultural cooperative (CAPLAME) in West Cameroon following the coffee crisis and their impacts on its performances. The study is based on survey using questionnaires with 74 producers and 12 employees. Our results show that, the strategies set up include: diversification of incomes sources and the signature of convention with government. These strategies are insufficient and inadequate for a revival though they permit a reduction of the cooperative financial deficit. Likewise, they have not improved its social performances and within the coffee sector. CAPLAME has to rethink its identity and activities. She has also to rethink its relationship with members and set up new strategies in order to impulse a positive dynamics at the level of its performances.
Author Keywords: Agricultural cooperative, Strategy, Viability, Coffee crisis, Cameroon.
Abstract: (french)
Cet article porte sur les stratégies d’adaptation et de relance de la Coopérative Agricole des Planteurs de la Menoua (CAPLAME) à l’Ouest Cameroun suite à la crise caféière, ainsi que sur l’évolution de ses performances. L'étude repose sur des enquêtes par questionnaires auprès de 74 producteurs et 12 employés. Les résultats montrent que les stratégies développées incluent une diversification des sources de revenus et la signature de conventions de soutien avec l’Etat. Ces stratégies s’avèrent insuffisantes et inadaptées pour une relance quoiqu’ayant permis une réduction du déficit financier de la coopérative. De même, elles n’ont en rien amélioré ni ses performances sociales, ni ses performances au sein de la filière café. La CAPLAME devrait repenser son identité, son projet, et partant son objet et ses activités. Elle doit aussi revoir sa relation avec ses adhérents et mettre en place des stratégies novatrices et ambitieuses afin d’impulser une dynamique d’amélioration significative de ses performances.
Author Keywords: Coopérative agricole, Stratégie, Viabilité, Crise caféière, Cameroun.
How to Cite this Article
Guillaume Hensel Fongang Fouepe, Barthelemy NGUEKENG, and Urcil-Papito KENFACK ESSOUGONG, “Coffee crisis and decline of Agricultural cooperatives in West Cameroon: The difficult recovery of « Coopérative Agricole des Planteurs de la Menoua » (CAPLAME),” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 668–680, February 2017.
