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2025 - Volume 9 - Number 1

Endogenous Knowledge and Natural Conservation of Agricultural Products in West Cameroon

Djiope Popadem Maroti
University of Yaoundé, Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, Yaoundé, CAMEROON

Open Journal for Anthropological Studies, 2025, 9(1), 11-18 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojas.0901.02011p
Received: 6 May 2024 ▪ Revised: 7 July 2025 ▪ Accepted: 20 July 2025

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ABSTRACT:
This article deals with the contribution of endogenous knowledge in the process of conservation of food products in West Cameroon. Endogenous knowledge is deepest in West Cameroon. In recent decades, the modernization of farming techniques has disrupted the realities and habits of populations. It is clear that despite this surge in modernism, many populations in West Cameroon have remained attached to their ancestral realities. However, crops that are perishable foods face numerous risks of rot. It is in this sense that this article aims to explore some mechanisms for the conservation of food products in West Cameroon, in an endogenous and cultural context. The postulate that emerges from this initiative is that rural populations have developed resilience strategies in the face of the problem of product conservation. To achieve such a result, it was important to use varied methodologies, both through documentary collection, field data collection, and verification and validation of the extracted information. Thus, it appears from the analyzes carried out that there are several endogenous strategies for preserving food products in West Cameroon, including drying, smoking and exposure to sunlight.

KEY WORDS: conservation, endogenous knowledge, food products, globalization.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Djiope Popadem Maroti, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, CAMEROON.

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