Weaknesses suffered by producer organizations in the Cocoa and coffee sector was topical in Bamenda from April 13-15, 2009 during a workshop that deliberated on the capacity of producers' organizations to play a more active role in the overall interest of the sector and of the economy of the agricultural sector.

The Cameroon-EU project executed by the cocoa and Coffee inter professional Board support program ( CCIBSP) seeks to satisfy the needs of member organizations in terms of services delivered, satisfy market needs and ensure the best representation possible at all levels.

The approach also known as a typology, proposes the strengthening of the capacity of production organizations through activities that enable them to train themselves, take decisions and actions towards development. The workshop assembled some 40 delegates with a mission to elaborate an instrument for analysis and decision. It all had to do with an approach that is functional, profitable, competitive, representative and credible.

The approach which is said to be scientific is based on a study of reality focused on a code of ethics beyond set rules to improve undesirable practices and behaviour that harm their credibility and confidence necessary for the development of responsible institutions. In effect, personal or territorial reasons are also know to hinder the development of collective actions in the cocoa/Coffee sector which consequently set in speed brakes for common, positions or the ability to widen the base of producer consortiums. It was against this background that delegates deliberated on the creation of an association of producers of Cocoa and Coffee.

Agricultural professional organization's typology and implementation of the process of ethics was the theme of the seminar conceived to ensure the implementation of decentralized participatory rural support. Delegates from the Centre, Littoral, East, North West and South regions were trained to reflect and propose ethical rules to apply in agricultural professional organizations. Lessons on the organizing and structuring of the rural world and the cocoa and coffee sector by Cameroon 's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ( MINADER) were also taken home by delegates.