Infrastructures de stockage agricole (ISAC) dans la zone soudano-sahélienne du Cameroun : conditions de gouvernance d’un bien commun pour la sécurisation alimentaire

Faced with the permanent risk of food insecurity in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Cameroon, national and international public action is more focus by promoting collective storage as innovation trajectories for the regulation of the cereal market. The storage infrastructure, which is subject to sometimes contradictory operational management rules and is exposed to dichotomous visions as to its purpose between promoters and beneficiaries, acquires the quality of a common resource in the sense of Ostrom. As a result, this lack of coherence leads to the failure of policies to support food security and development assistance. The article questions the conditions for the pooling of policies that structure the innovation approach on storage and the results of the action of the diversity of actors. It analyzes the relevance of these approaches in terms of their relative impact on the historical seasonality of cereal supply and the instability of domestic prices. The methodology uses secondary data from institutions and organizations that produce storage information (SODECOTON, WFP, Cereal Office, Ministry of Agriculture, NGOs), and market price monitoring (INS). The use of these data is complemented by a survey of about a hundred producer organizations (POs) benefiting from institutional support (NGOs, state projects), their participation in the development and implementation of policies related to the collective storage system. Codes JEL: D49, R29, O12, Q11.