The Bakola/Bagyeli economy is diverse and based on a combination of hunting, gathering, collecting, trading, and selling forest products, agriculture, labor for the Bantu, and traditional medicine.
Trade is conducted through monetary means or barter. However, the average income per person remains low and is insufficient to meet basic needs (health, education, etc.).
The goal of developing agriculture among the Bakola/Bagyeli populations is to produce sufficient quantities of food to feed themselves and generate income by selling surpluses.
In agriculture, FEDEC works to build the capacities of the populations, particularly through mastery of agricultural practices such as seed management, harvesting, drying, etc.
The success of agricultural activities requires enhanced and tailored support combined with close monitoring of farmers.
The planned activities include the creation of cultivable spaces, the targeted distribution of seeds and agricultural tools, awareness raising, training in various techniques, the structuring of farmers into cooperatives, support for the development of income-generating activities, agroforestry plantations and the strengthening of the role of home gardens as a structuring and stabilizing element of the habitat.
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