Agricultural training has an important position in agriculture development, food security and poverty alleviation in Cameroon. The objectives of this study are to examine the impact of agricultural training on food crop production; determine the factors influencing agricultural training, decompose the effect of agricultural training type on food crop production, and recommend relevant economic policies on the basis of our analysis. Using data from the 2007 MINADER and data from the 2007 Household Consumption Survey, we used the control function model to estimate our result from STATA 13.0. We observed that the 2SLS, Control Function without interaction and Control Function with interaction results revealed that household agricultural training strongly correlates with food crop production. Also professional, workshop and on the farm training strongly affects agricultural production, with probability points of 2.6, 0.3 and 2.8 percent of increasing agricultural production respectively. Farm training becomes a high priority for increasing agricultural production. There are considerable opportunities to take advantage of agricultural training in terms of increase in cereal productivity. The decision makers, civil society organizations and stakeholders operating in agriculture should multiply agricultural training in both former and informer training, through the creation of agricultural schools, workshop/seminars and on the field training. JEL Classification: I25, D13, Q12
Food insecurity, malnutrition and hunger are persistent within the urban and rural areas in Cameroon resulting from inadequate development policy approaches. As a step to solve this problem, our study seeks principally to: evaluate the impact of adequate financing on agricultural production. Use is made of control function modeling. Empirical results are based on 2007 household consumption survey and statistics from Ministry of Agriculture. The result shows that adequate financing is strongly correlated with agricultural production, while results by type and nature of agricultural credit show that personal financing, bank and micro-financial institution, family and partners, friends and tontines and institutional support is increasing agricultural production. Further, subsidies in kind contribute more in augmenting agricultural production as compared to subsidies in cash. These results have implications for addressing the food security problem and poverty reduction in terms of improving agricultural productivity through adequate financing and subsidies in kind and income growth in this period of economic emergence.
Understanding the impediments of children's health on maternal labour and wealth accumulation in Africa is critical. The preoccupation of this study has been to develop a conceptual framework based on exploring the health-labourwealth relationship. This is, in an attempt to show the centrality and importance of children's health in understanding: maternal labour supply and wealth accumulation for broader appreciation. Based on empirical evidences, we observed that children's health positively and significantly influenced maternal labour and also strongly corroborates with wealth accumulation. From policy point of view, investing in children's health can motivates population growth, increase the supply of labour, promote savings and alleviate poverty.
This paper is targeted objectives: to document the determinants of child health as informed by focus group discussion, to analyze what the people say concerning the relationship between child health and maternal labour force participation, to explore the perception of the people on the effects of child health on asset accumulation and to suggest public policies on the basis of the findings. We used seven focus groups to explore what the people say based on different health domains: access to public goods; inputs to health; benefits from better health; better child health and complementary activities; benefits of maternity leave and better child health, decision making concerning family health. Each focus group was made of eight participants: housewife, traders, farmers, drivers, teachers, technicians, medical personnel and military drawn from different religious groups: catholic, protestant mainline, protestant non-mainline, other protestant, Muslim, systemic and traditional belief. We observed that, parents make used of the extra time accrue to them due to better health for their children and family to do extra work that fetched them money. The increased family income is use to send their children to better schools, carter for their wellbeing as well as to promote asset growth and redistribution, thus, improving economic well-being and reducing poverty. In case of retirement or sudden retrenchment from the labour market, parents make use of the accumulated assets to increase their family income and maintain well-being, hence, reducing the psychological trauma on parents due to poverty. Based on these findings, we recommend that decision makers and actors concern with child health issues should considered, ease and promote child health outcomes. This is a key to narrowing the poverty and inequality gap between the poor and non-poor, rural and urban household residence, married and unmarried, employed and the unemployed, promote maternal labour force participation and household wealth accumulation in Cameroon.
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