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Identification of banana production systems in urban and peri-urban agriculture in Yaoundé

Sylvaine Lemeilleur, Ludovic Temple, Moïse Kwa

Agritrop (Cirad)

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This study states that urban development, a key feature of socioeconomic change in developing countries, presents the challenge of increasing food supply to meet urban consumer demands. While peri-urban agriculture offers favorable conditions for intensifying production systems, there is limited research specifically on bananas. Therefore, this work aims to identify banana production systems in the peri-urban agriculture of Yaoundé, Cameroon's capital (1.4 million inhabitants).