Agricultural Digitalization in Cameroon’s Livestock Sector
Increasing environmental stresses and systematic shocks are affecting the livestock sector in Cameroon at multiple levels. Frequent climatic stress from prolonged and changing dry and rainy seasons have changed the farming calendar and farm management activities of smallholder producers in Cameroon. This is in addition to systemic shocks from livestock pests and disease outbreaks leaving farmers frustrated and unable to make sufficient income.
In this project, ASDEV is working with Cattle farmers in Northern Cameroon, Poultry farmers in the South West and North West Regions, and Pig farmers in West Cameroon. The objectives of the project are: (1) To understand the awareness, readiness, and willingness to use digital agricultural tools; (2) Vulnerability – exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to climatic changes; and (3) Various response strategies to pest and diseases outbreaks.
Increasing environmental stresses and systematic shocks are affecting the livestock sector in Cameroon at multiple levels. Frequent climatic stress from prolonged and changing dry and rainy seasons have changed the farming calendar and farm management activities of smallholder producers in Cameroon. This is in addition to systemic shocks from livestock pests and disease outbreaks leaving farmers frustrated and unable to make sufficient income.
In this project, ASDEV is working with Cattle farmers in Northern Cameroon, Poultry farmers in the South West and North West Regions, and Pig farmers in West Cameroon. The objectives of the project are: (1) To understand the awareness, readiness, and willingness to use digital agricultural tools; (2) Vulnerability – exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to climatic changes; and (3) Various response strategies to pest and diseases outbreaks.