COMCEC
Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
Table 2: Commodities imported in Cameroon in 2011
Commodity
Quantity
(tonnes)
Value
(U$ 1,000)
Unit value
(US$/tonne)
Wheat 416,925 178,888 429
Sugar refined 90,390 74,695 826
Malt 67,915 53,411 786
Food prep (nes.) 19,719 36,150 1,833
Milk whole cried 8,651 35,558 4,110
Cigarettes 3,542 35,147 9,923
Palm oil 21,300 26,857 1,261
Infant food 3,094 19,163 6,194
Cake of soybeans 29,238 15,860 542
Flour of maize 16,234 12,642 779
Wine 11,994 12,025 1,003
Macaroni 13,907 11,980 861
Food prep, flour, malt extract 11,390 9,260 813
Sugar confectionery 7,492 8,423 1,124
Flour ofWheat 12,445 8,152 655
Pastry 4,174 8,006 1,918
Food wastes 6,147 7,475 1,216
Margarine short 6,811 6,593 968
Offal of pigs, edible 2,982 6,344 2,127
Grape juice 4,145 6,244 1,506
Source: FAOSTAT (2012)
Table 3: Commodities exported by Cameroon in 2011
Commodity
Quantity
(tonnes)
Value
(U$ 1,000)
Unit value
(US$/tonne)
Cocoa beans 190,214 512,183 2,693
Cotton lint 55,803 113,934 2,042
Rubber nat. dry 25,447 105,558 4,148
Bananas 237,275 88,672 374
Coffee, green 30,842 72,176 2,340
Cocoa butter 7,812 30,577 3,914
Cocoa paste 7,.093 27,404 3,864
Food prep (nes.) 10,200 26,106 2,559
Natural rubber 6,627 25,671 3,874
Cocoa powder & cake 5,815 21,731 3,737
Chocolate 2,878 12,152 4,222
Palm oil 5,003 9,840 1,967
Beverages (distilled alc.) 5,941 8,296 1,396
Vegetables preserved (nes.) 3,544 5,452 1,538
Sugar confectionery 1.414 4,675 3,306
Sugar refined 4,116 4,144 1,007
Milk whole dried 580 3,907 6,736
Beer of barley 4,088 3.096 757
Pineapples 10,005 2,261 226
Pastry 1,346 1,774 1,318
Source: FAOSTAT(2012)
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