(Business in Cameroon) - On June 8 in Rome, Italy, Cameroonian Minister of Agriculture, Essimi Menyé, received a certificate of recognition from the Executive Director of the FAO, Graziano da Silva, for Cameroon’s performance in the attainment of the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) ahead of 2015.

This MDG involved the reduction of the number of people affected by hunger. “You overcame major challenges in difficult global economic conditions and political environments,” stated the FAO’s Executive Director in late 2014, when revealing the list of countries being recognised by the FAO.

Among the 13 countries mentioned, the FAO highlights that three of them, including Cameroon, went farther by achieving the most difficult goal of the 1996 World Food Summit, which aimed to achieve “the 50% reduction in the absolute number of under nourished people by 2015.”