(Business in Cameroon) - If Cameroonian women had more access to land and financing, their involvement in in coffee farming could increase national production by 20%-30%. This was revealed by an FAO study cited on April 24, 2015 at the 3^rd Festicoffee, the International Cameroonian Coffee Festival held from April 23-25, 2015.

Under the theme, “Coffee: a business opportunity for women”, the forum not only revealed the faces of women marginalised in the coffee sector (they do the farming, but the men do the selling), despite the important role they play (50% of Cameroon’s farmers are women), but also looked at the advantages of having women participate in the development of Cameroon’s coffee sector.

In order to enable women to have a real share of the coffee sector, an association for women involved in coffee (AFECC) has just been created.