Abstract
Cameroon’s National Development Strategy (NDS30) is a strategic planning document acting as a road map for achieving Cameroon’s economic, social, and environmental goals by 2030. To achieve the ambitious goals set out in this strategic planning document, there is an absolute need to factor in best practices that can enhance the growth of Cameroon’s economy in a sustainable manner. Against this backdrop, this chapter seeks to portray the all-encompassing role that an agroforestry-based bioeconomy transition can play toward attaining the NDS30 goal of environmental and nature protection (sustainable natural resources management and adaptation to climate change). Our findings reveal that an agroforestry-based bioeconomy will contribute enormously toward the sustainable management of natural resources (soils, water, flora, and wildlife) and adaptation to climate change through the provision of different ecosystem services, that is, provisioning, supporting, regulating, and cultural, which will foster an economy driven by biological resources rather than a fossil fuel-driven economy that drives pollution and environmental degradation. Thus, an agroforestry-based bioeconomy shift is a sustainable option that can foster the attainment of Cameroon’s NDS30 environmental and nature protection goal. Policymakers are called upon to fast-track the adoption and implementation of this sustainable economic system in Cameroon if the NDS30 environmental and nature protection goal is to become a reality.
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