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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year.
Sorghum, maize, millet, and rice are the primary staples grown andconsumed in the Far North region of Cameroon. Legumes such ascowpeas and groundnuts are also widely consumed. Onion is animportant cash crop. Maroua and Kousseri host the most importantreference markets in the Far North, responsible for the flow fromrural to urban areas during harvest, and the opposite during thelean season. Other important reference markets include Mora,Mokolo, and Yagoua. Markets in the Far North play an importantrole in regional trade with neighboring Chad and Northeast Nigeria.However, as result of insecurity and conflict in the Greater LakeChad basin, these trade corridors are often closed by thegovernment, re-orientating trade flow more towards southerndestinations, precisely Yaounde, Douala, Gabon, Equatoral Guineaand the Central Africa Republic (CAR). The Northwest region is amajor production basin for maize and beans, while the Southwestregion produces mainly plantain, cassava, and cocoyam. Potato andrice are also important crops produced and consumed in bothregions. Palm oil is produced in both regions as an important cashcrop sold mostly processed. These regions supply large cities inCameroon and neighboring Gabon, Chad, and CAR, and also haveimportant trade connections with Nigeria.
reference markets in these regions include Bamenda, Kumbo, Fundong, Buea, Mamfe, and Limbe.of the ongoing conflict inthe two regions. Some key reference markets in these regions include Bamenda, Kumbo, Fundong, Buea, Mamfe,and Limbe.
Most locally produced foods supplied in Yaoundé and Douala markets come from peri-urban and rural areas, as rapidurbanization of these cities has reduced the total areas under cultivation. Demand for banana, palm oil, and cassavaprocessed products is huge, coming mainly from neighboring divisions and from the Southwest, West and South regions.Other highly demanded locally produced staples are macabo, maize, and beans, all externally supplied. Also, withCameroon being an import dependent country for rice, more than 90 percent of the rice supplied in these city markets areimported from Asia.