Coffee crisis and decline of Agricultural cooperatives in West Cameroon: The difficult recovery of « Coopérative Agricole des Planteurs de la Menoua » (CAPLAME)

Crise caféière et déclin des coopératives agricoles à l'Ouest Cameroun: La difficile relance de la Coopérative Agricole des Planteurs de la Menoua (CAPLAME)

Guillaume Hensel Fongang Fouepe, Barthelemy Nguekeng and Urcil Papito Kenfack Essougong
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Guillaume Hensel Fongang Fouepe: Université de Dschang
Urcil Papito Kenfack Essougong: Université de Dschang

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Abstract: This article focuses on adaptation and revival strategies of an agricultural cooperative (CAPLAME) in West Cameroon following the coffee crisis and their impacts on its performances. The study is based on a survey using questionnaires with 74 producers and 12 employees. Our results show that the strategies set up include: diversification of incomes sources and the signature of conventions' with the government. These strategies are insufficient and inadequate for a revival though they permit a reduction of the cooperative financial deficit. Likewise, they have not improved its social performances and within the coffee sector. CAPLAME has to rethink its identity and activities. She has also to rethink its relationship with members and set up new strategies in order to impulse a positive dynamics at the level of its performances.

Keywords: Strategy; Agricultural cooperative; Cameroon; Viability; Coffee crisis; Crise caféière; Viabilité; Stratégie; Cameroun; Coopérative agricole (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 2017, 19 (3), pp.668-680

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