Cameroon · Planet
Cocoa Farmer Agroforestry
Not For Sale’s planet work in Cameroon supports the Cocoa Farmer Agroforestry project through Tree-Nation. Cameroon faces industrial logging, agro-industrial plantation expansion, and encroachment on critical forests including Ebo Forest, one of Africa’s most biodiverse remaining rainforests.
Why This Matters
Forest-dependent communities in Cameroon lose land and income to logging and plantation expansion, leading to reliance on logging camps or plantations where wages, safety, and freedom of movement are easily abused. Cocoa agroforestry offers an alternative: a crop that generates income while preserving canopy cover. Like Brazil nuts in Peru, cocoa under agroforestry is a conservation crop, one that gives communities an economic reason to protect the forest rather than clear it.
