Photographs by Ollivier Girard. For more stories from the Congo Basin visit: www.blog.cifor.org/congo

1. From leaves to livelihoods
Villagers
of
Minwoho,
Cameroon
harves4ng
Okok
Photographs
by
Ollivier
Girard

2. Minwoho village chief Ngontsimi Onana with a popular forest product, Okok

3. Villager Rodrigue Ngotimi with okok seedling ready for planting.

4. Pauline Ugwono plants okok seedling

5. Women harvest mature okok leaves

6. Women harvest mature okok leaves

7. Women harvest mature okok leaves

8. Rita Mendouga carries okok and bananas back from the forest

9. Women and children bring okok leaves to market

10. Women and children bring okok leaves to market

11. Women and children bring okok leaves to market

12. Okok leaves for sale

13. Woman prepares okok for cooking

14. Okok is cooked with palm oil and peanuts

15. Beatrice Ananga cooks a popular okok dish

16. To
read
CIFOR’s
research
on
Okok
(Gnetum
spp.)
click
on
the
below
links:
• Regulatory
policies
and
Gnetum
spp.
in
Cameroon
• Eru
Leaves
reduce
poverty
and
restore
damaged
forest
• Empowering
women’s
capacity
for
improved
livelihoods
in
non-­‐4mber
forest
product
trade
in
Cameroon
• Fact
Sheet:
Gnetum
spp
(Okok
or
Eru)
For
more
stories
from
the
Congo
Basin
visit:
www.blog.cifor.org/congo