ICRAF Cameroon has been the flag bearer in participatory tree domestication and on-farm tree diversity conservation for over three decades. The aim of this program is to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers through increased incomes and other benefits from indigenous trees and shrubs.

ICRAF is supporting Cameroon’s strategic objectives of poverty alleviation, reducing deforestation and forest degradation and adaptation to climate change, through engagement in initiatives such as REDD+, Zero-deforestation Cocoa and the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), in collaboration with national and international partners. 

The country program has contributed to reducing pressure in protected areas and in other landscapes through the creation of community nurseries, integration of trees in farming systems and development of agroforestry tree product value chains.

ICRAF Cameroon was established in Yaounde in 1987.