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Between 1967 and 1983, during the high point of World Bank activity in rural development in the Cameroon, the Bank financed 18 agricultural development projects, nearly all of which were oriented towards export crops such as rubber, cocoa and palm oil. Most of the projects were carried out by semi-public corporations and were of an enclave type. The project under consideration here is interesting because it was conceived to serve the internal market. Moreover, it is a development project not a production project. This vast irrigated rice growing project, Semry (Société d’expansion et de modernisation tion de la riziculture de Yagoua), is in fact destined to produce rice for local consumption. For the lending agencies, as for the state of Cameroon, Semry represents one of the rare examples of successful rice farming in Africa.
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World Bank, Project Performance Audit Report, Cameroon Second Semry Rice Project (Washington:Operations Evaluation Department, 25 June 1984) p. 22.
World Bank, Cameroon Country Economic Memorandum (Washington: 1984)
World Bank, Economic Memorandum, op. cit. (1984) p. 45.
World Bank, Project Performance Audit Report, op. cit. (1984) p. vi.
Martine Audibert, Semry: A Self-Assessment (School of Economics of Aix-en-Provence, 1981) quoted in
World Bank, Project Performance Audit Report, op. cit.,1 (1984) p. 55.
Arditi, C., Baris, P. and Barnaud, M., Evaluation socio-économique du Projet Semry au Cameroun, ‘Conclusion, Mission d’évaluation’, (Paris: SEDES, IRAM, November 1983) p. x.
Semry, Rapport préliminaire d’évaluation du programme de structuration du milieu pour les 3 unités Semry. Period from June 1986 to June 1991, (Yagoua: August 1985) annex II.
Jones, C. The Effects of the Intrahousehold Organization of Production and the Distribution of Revenue in the Participation of Rice Cultivation in the Semry I, CRED, USAID (1982) p. 17.
Semry, Rapport d’activité 1983–84 (Yagoua: November 1984).
World Bank, Project Performance Audit Report, op. cit. (1984) p. 21.
World Bank, Project Performance Audit Report, op. cit. (1984) p. 16.
Semry, Rapport d’activité 1982–83 (Yagoua: 1984) p. 12.
Given the extent of clandestine trade, it is impossible to determine either the level of imports or the amount of rice in transit entering the Cameroon, as statistics on exchange at the borders were not available. Semry, Marché et commercialisation du riz au Cameroun, Report of the Mission, November 21 – December 16, 1983 (December 1983) p. 12.
World Bank, Project Performance Audit Report, op. cit. (1984) p. 107.
Bayard, J-F., L’Etat au Cameroun (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sc. Politiques, 1985) p. 228.
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Claude, D. (1989). Production and Commercialisation of Rice in Cameroon: The Semry Project. In: Campbell, B.K., Loxley, J. (eds) Structural Adjustment in Africa. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20398-7_8
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