Au Cameroun, la culture du café fût abandonnée à partir de l’indépendance du pays en 1960. Puis à plus grande échelle encore dans les années 1970, suite aux départs des investisseurs et investissements étrangers. Depuis, les paysans ont coupé les arbres de café ou les ont laissés à l’abandon. Ainsi, l’on comptait 800 000 familles de producteurs de café à l’époque au Cameroun, contre 200 000 aujourd’hui.

As in many of the places we visited, the yield per coffee tree is extremely low. This may be due to a lack of proper maintenance, or to trees accustomed to producing only with chemical inputs.

The young farmers of the Terra Noun cooperative want to revive organic farming on their plots. The cultivation of several types of production is planned. These include plantains, avocado, mango and other citrus trees that perform well with coffee, as well as corn, beans, tomatoes, chillies and peppers, among many others. Trees whose wood will be used for other purposes are also planted.

As coffee-growing populations are ageing, school plantations and "one elder/one young person" collaborations are being set up, with the aim of perpetuating ancestral knowledge. The aim of the school plantations is to test farming techniques and make land available for training younger farmers.

The cooperative also encourages children to enjoy school by organizing reward days for participants. Special consideration is given to girls.

In addition to that, the cooperative tries to valorize women's work by integrating them in the decision-making process. Systems are experimented to facilitate the sale of their products to town.

Many stories and anecdotes rely in the book Book One Hectare of Coffee.

Thanks to Soulé Mfondouo and the village of Koutaba.

Like nothing ever happened

Fruits rot because wars rage
Soared houses, retaliation
No sells, inflation

Brothers died before age
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