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Cameroon's South West region has great potentials in the production of Agroforestry products but production and marketing are done using rudimentary technologies, which make it difficult to sustain growing demand for the products in both domestic and international markets. Difficulties in production have been attributed to social, economic, environmental and other constraints which grossly affect production and marketing. The main objective of the study is to examine difficulties encountered by actors in Agroforestry activities and how these problems affect marketing and income generation in the study area. The study was carried out in eleven random selected villages producing agroforestry products while respondents were selected through purposive sampling. Data collected for the study were anaylsed through qualitative and quantative methods. According to this study, marketing of agroforestry products in Manyu Division and else where in Cameroon can only play a significant role in poverty alleviation, if government and other stalkholders could provide an enabling enrivornment backed by packages of incentives and motivations. This will significantly minimise production and marketing problems encountered by actors and stalkholders in the agroforestry value chain.

Proceedings of a conference organised by the African Studies Centre at the University of Leiden, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Yaounde 1 under the auspices of the Ministry of Scientific and Technical Research and the Cameroon Academy of Sciences from October 13-18, 1995 in Yaounde, Cameroon

Introduction: This article deals with the results of a cross-sectional study which aims at adaptation and initial cross-cultural validation in Cameroonian populations of the English-speaking scale "The Fear Of Covid-19 Scale" by Ahorsu et al. (2020) in French. Method: To do this, the validation procedure proposed by Vallerand (1989) was partially used. The preliminary version of the attitude scale towards Covid 19 (Phase 1), internal consistency analyzes, exploratory factorial and confirmatory factorial (Phase 2) were carried out using IBM SPSS Statistics + AMOS 23 on data collected from a sample of 680 inhabitants of French-speaking Cameroon, recruited for convenience in urban and rural areas, respectively in Yaoundé the political capital and within its periphery, during the month of November 2020. Results: Participants, aged 18 to 78 years (N = 680, M = 36.79; SD = 13.3; 95% CI [35.78; 37.79]), 335 (49.3%) are men and 345 (51.7%) are women; 49.9% of participants live in rural areas and 51.1% in urban areas. The results reveal that the scale has a good internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha =.83; Guttman's Lambda 6 =.86) and a factor structure which highlights 2 factors (r=.55; P <.001) which explain 54.86% of the variance and exhibit an excellent fit of the model to the data (Comparative Fit Index = .99; Non Normed Fit Index=.98; Goodness-of-Fit Index = .97; Normed Fit Index = .99 ; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation=.021; Chi-square = 16.87; degree of freedom = 13; Chi-square / degree of freedom = 1.298). Conclusion: This 8-item scale constitutes an instrument that can be used to study the determinants and effects of psychological attitude towards Covid 19. This is a key variable in the process of adopting a healthy behavior. ; Introduction : Le présent article traite des résultats d'une étude transversale qui a pour objectif l'adaptation et la validation initiale transculturelle chez les populations camerounaises de l'échelle anglophone « The Fear Of Covid-19 Scale » de Ahorsu et al. (2020) en langue ...

Introduction: This article deals with the results of a cross-sectional study which aims at adaptation and initial cross-cultural validation in Cameroonian populations of the English-speaking scale "The Fear Of Covid-19 Scale" by Ahorsu et al. (2020) in French. Method: To do this, the validation procedure proposed by Vallerand (1989) was partially used. The preliminary version of the attitude scale towards Covid 19 (Phase 1), internal consistency analyzes, exploratory factorial and confirmatory factorial (Phase 2) were carried out using IBM SPSS Statistics + AMOS 23 on data collected from a sample of 680 inhabitants of French-speaking Cameroon, recruited for convenience in urban and rural areas, respectively in Yaoundé the political capital and within its periphery, during the month of November 2020. Results: Participants, aged 18 to 78 years (N = 680, M = 36.79; SD = 13.3; 95% CI [35.78; 37.79]), 335 (49.3%) are men and 345 (51.7%) are women; 49.9% of participants live in rural areas and 51.1% in urban areas. The results reveal that the scale has a good internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha =.83; Guttman's Lambda 6 =.86) and a factor structure which highlights 2 factors (r=.55; P <.001) which explain 54.86% of the variance and exhibit an excellent fit of the model to the data (Comparative Fit Index = .99; Non Normed Fit Index=.98; Goodness-of-Fit Index = .97; Normed Fit Index = .99 ; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation=.021; Chi-square = 16.87; degree of freedom = 13; Chi-square / degree of freedom = 1.298). Conclusion: This 8-item scale constitutes an instrument that can be used to study the determinants and effects of psychological attitude towards Covid 19. This is a key variable in the process of adopting a healthy behavior. ; Introduction : Le présent article traite des résultats d'une étude transversale qui a pour objectif l'adaptation et la validation initiale transculturelle chez les populations camerounaises de l'échelle anglophone « The Fear Of Covid-19 Scale » de Ahorsu et al. (2020) en langue ...