At the invitation of the Head of State, the Director of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Qu Dongyu, held a working meeting with the head of government on 22 April 2024.

Cameroon has more than 15 million urban dwellers, half of whom live in Yaounde and Douala, and the number of urban dwellers has increased by 50 per cent between 2010 and 2020.

A pilot project of the Green Cities Initiative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has been running since March 2023. Its implementation has attracted the interest of other municipalities in Yaounde and elsewhere, focusing on a micro-project to train waste collectors who visit households and collect waste for composting, the process of composting itself, and the promotion of urban agriculture.

A year after its implementation, the director of the UN agency, Qu Dongyu, had a working mission to Cameroon. This led to the organisation of a working meeting between him and the Prime Minister of Cameroon, Joseph Dion Ngute. It was held on April 22. The meeting focused on feeding, producing and environmental issues. “Together, we will produce more and better quality food so that Cameroonians can benefit from the FAO’s four priority areas of better life, nutrition, environment and production,” said the Prime Minister at the end of the meeting.

FAO’s main goal is to achieve food security and ensure that people have regular access to sufficient, good-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.