African Cocoa and Coffee Marketing Organization (ACCFMO) was formed and registered in the Republic of South Africa under the section 21 of the company law. ACCFMO is an NGO and not a profit making company. Community development based on local resources is our main channel of action to attain food sufficiency, improved communities livelihoods.

We provide productive agricultural business development services, initiate community organizational set-ups (cooperative societies). Analyse agricultural policies and advocate for policy space that impact the life of smallholder agricultural farmers in Africa through participatory, responsible resource management, transparency and equity in the commodity value chain.

After a strong introduction in global issues on food production and distribution, privatization and liberalization, globalization and development its opportunities and challenges in sub Saharan Africa during the UNCTADXII session in Accra, Ghana in April 2008, we discovered our concentration region should be in Economic Community of Central African States. Douala, Cameroon host the organizational first foreign office.

We obtained an official permit form the local authorities to operate an a non-profit-making organization providing agribusiness development services, organize sensitization forums, create awareness and build capacity.

We are contributing in developing the cocoa and coffee sector under the SPS capacity bulding, working with the World Cocoa Foundation - Cocoa Livelihoods/African Cocoa Initiative Programs. Accopanying the Netherland Development Organization to develop the Cocoa Value Chain in Cameroon to readdress the problems of poverty reduction and equity.

We are collaborating with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to organise a Round table Meeting on Financing Agricultural Commodity Base Trade and Finance. The aim will be to sensitize agricultural service industries (Banks/Microfinance Institutions, Insurers, Input companies, Traders, Processors) on their missing role in the agricultural commodity production and trade. We hope this will induce local banks to invest in agriculture considered to be high risk activities partly because of total disintegration of the activities of basic stakeholders.