Price Bulletin August 2021

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 and consumed in the Far North region of Cameroon. Legumes such as cowpeas and groundnuts are also widely consumed. Onion is an important cash crop. Maroua and Kousseri host the most important reference markets in the Far North, responsible for the flow from rural to urban areas during harvest, and the opposite during the lean season. Other important reference markets include Mora, Mokolo, and Yagoua. Markets in the Far North play an important role in regional trade with neighboring Chad and Northeast Nigeria. However, as result of insecurity and conflict in the Greater Lake Chad basin, these trade corridors are often closed by the government, re-orientating trade flow more towards southern destinations, precisely Yaounde, Douala, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Central Africa Republic (CAR). The Northwest region is a major production basin for maize and beans, while the Southwest region produces mainly plantain, cassava, and cocoyam. Potato and rice are also important crops Source: FEWS NET gratefully acknowledges DRADER, produced and consumed in both regions. Palm oil is produced in Cameroon for the market data and information used to both regions as an important cash crop sold mostly processed. produce this report. These regions supply large cities in Cameroon and neighboring Gabon, Chad, and CAR, and also have important trade connections with Nigeria. Nevertheless, these trade routes are faced with frequent closures as a result of the ongoing conflict in the two regions. Some key reference markets in these regions include , Kumbo, , Buea, Mamfe, and Limbe.of the ongoing conflict in the 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 rapid urbanization of these cities has reduced the total areas under cultivation. Demand for banana, palm oil, and cassava processed 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, with Cameroon being an import dependent country for rice, more than 90 percent of the rice supplied in these city markets are imported from Asia.

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5 Year Average 2015/16 - 2019/20 Previous Year 2019/20 Current Year 2020/21

Banana (Plantain): Nominal retail prices in Douala, Beans (Red): Nominal retail prices in Kumbo Sandaga 4000 12000 3500 10000 3000 8000 2500 kg kg

2000 6000 XAF/12 1500 XAF/20 4000 1000

500 2000 0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year 2 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

Cassava: Nominal retail prices in Buea Cassava: Nominal retail prices in Yaounde, Mokolo 25000 1200

1000 20000 800

kg 15000 kg 600

10000 XAF/5 400 XAF/160 5000 200

0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Previous Year Current Year 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

Cowpeas (White): Nominal wholesale prices in Mora Groundnuts (Shelled): Nominal wholesale prices in Mokolo 60000 60000

50000 50000

40000 40000 kg kg

30000 30000 XAF/100 XAF/100 20000 20000

10000 10000

0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

Maize Grain (Yellow): Nominal retail prices in Maize Grain (Yellow): Nominal retail prices in Mamfe Bamenda 5250 5250

4500 4500

3750 3750 kg kg 3000 3000

2250 2250 XAF/18 XAF/18 1500 1500

750 750

0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year 2 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

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Palm Oil (Refined): Nominal retail prices in Douala,

Onions: Nominal wholesale prices in Mora Marché central 80000 900 70000 800 60000 700 600

kg 50000 500 40000 400

XAF/Liter

XAF/100 30000 300

20000 200 10000 100 0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

Palm Oil (Refined): Nominal retail prices in Fundong Palm Oil (Refined): Nominal retail prices in Limbe

18000 14000

16000 12000 14000 10000 12000 Liter Liter 8000

10000 8000 6000 XAF/20 XAF/20 6000 4000 4000 2000 2000 0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 2 Year Average Previous Year Current Year 2 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

Rice (Local): Nominal wholesale prices in Kousseri Rice (Imported): Nominal retail prices in Kumbo 70000 30000

60000 25000 50000 20000 kg kg

40000 15000 30000 XAF/50 XAF/120 10000 20000

10000 5000

0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year 2 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

Rice (Imported): Nominal retail prices in Limbe Rice (Local): Nominal wholesale prices in Maroua

30000 70000

25000 60000 50000 20000 kg kg

40000 15000 30000 XAF/50 10000 XAF/120 20000

5000 10000

0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 2 Year Average Previous Year Current Year 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

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Rice (Imported): Nominal retail prices in Yaounde, Sorghum (Red): Nominal wholesale prices in Kousseri Mfoundi 600 24000 21000 500 18000 400

kg 15000

300 12000

XAF/kg XAF/100 9000 200 6000 100 3000 0 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

Sorghum (Red): Nominal wholesale prices in Maroua

27000 24000 21000 18000 kg 15000 12000

XAF/100 9000 6000 3000 0 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep 5 Year Average Previous Year Current Year

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