With its office established in Yaounde in 1987, CIFOR-ICRAF has been 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.

Main research areas include: participatory tree domestication and on-farm tree diversity conservation; co-design and diffusion of innovations for participatory tree domestication through the use of rural resource centres; landscape and value chain governance; sustainable value chains for tree crops (cocoa), timber and non-timber forest products; formalization of artisanal logging; landscape restoration; securing tenure rights in forest landscape restoration; sustainable woodfuel production, including gender-responsive approaches and mangrove conservation; community-based enterprise development, including community forest enterprises; soil health; soil and water conservation techniques; climate change mitigation and adaptation; and innovation systems and rural advisory services for scaling of agroforestry and agroecology.