Coopérative des jardiniers de Houéyiho (CJH), Cotonou, Benin
Cotonou (Cadjèhoun), Benin · Operator: Coopérative des jardiniers de Houéyiho（CJH、代表 Victor Déguénon）
Overview
An urban growers' cooperative on a 15-hectare market-garden site in the Cadjèhoun district of Cotonou, where 354 members each work a plot of about 1,200 sq m. The ground is divided into five zones, and the cooperative organises bulk input purchases, training and tontine credit. Its head describes it as a grouping of family enterprises bound by very strong solidarity.
Citizen participation
Members work plots of about 1,200 sq m as family units. The cooperative handles bulk purchasing of inputs, training, mutual aid through tontine savings groups and the circulation of growing know-how. Its head is elected; Victor Déguénon, who chaired the growers' association in 1992, was re-elected to lead the cooperative.
Operating model
A grouping of family enterprises shipping leaf vegetables and salad greens year-round. Joint purchasing and shared information move new growing techniques quickly through the membership.
Impact
354 registered members, 54 of them women, keep the site running on mutual aid between family enterprises, supplying the city with leaf vegetables year-round.
Land tenure
Plots are allocated to members across five zones of the site; the source does not state who owns the land.
Crops
- 葉物野菜
- サラダ用野菜
Scale
150,000 m² — 菜園地は15ヘクタールを5つの区に分ける。組合員は354人で、うち女性54人。1人あたりの区画は約1,200㎡
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