Centre for Nursery Development and Eru Propagation (CENDEP)

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WHO WE ARE

The Centre for Nursery Development and Eru Propagation, CENDEP is a grassroots organization created and legalized as a Common Initiative Group on the 19th of July 2000 with registration number: SW/GP/05/00/1913.

CENDEP is a grassroots organization created in 1999 with the goal of training local people in the domestication, sustainable production and marketing of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and agricultural products of economic importance as well as in the sustainable management of natural resources.

OUR MISSION

“To promote livelihoods and conservation through dialogue, participatory education, training and research”

OUR VISION

“To become a lead organization which promotes the restoration and protection of degraded forest ecosystems as well as agricultural lands, through training and mentorship in order to enhance the sustainable production and marketing of non wood forest and agricultural products to improve local livelihoods”.

OUR ACTIVITIES

DOMESTICATION

Wild stocks of a number of non timber forest products (NTFPs) of economic, cultural and medicinal importance in Cameroon are currently threatened due to unsustainable and over exploitation in response to national and international market demands, poverty, ignorance and agricultural expansion.

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Jatropha curcas is a valuable non-edible multi purpose crop which grows on barren land, easy to propagate, has very little water requirements, grows relatively quickly, and reduces soil degradation. It is commonly used as a boundary marker in Cameroon.

ANALOGUE FORESTRY

The Northwest Region of Cameroon with over 70% of its population engaged in peasant agriculture has over the years experienced severe land and watershed degradation resulting from unsustainable farming practices. CENDEP is a member of IAFN