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Cameroonian coffee roasters have won two awards at the African Taste of Harvest 2026, held from February 4th to 6th in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, alongside the annual conference of the African Fine Coffees Association. The announcement was made on the website of the National Cocoa and Coffee Board (NCCB).
Cameroon secured first place in the natural robusta category and third place for “women-produced natural robusta,” highlighting the increasingly important role women play in the country’s coffee industry.
These awards come as Cameroon’s coffee processing sector continues to chart a different path from cocoa. While cocoa processing is largely dominated by foreign companies, coffee roasting remains primarily in the hands of local operators. According to the NCCB, locally processed coffee products regularly gain international recognition.
This track record was highlighted during the fourth edition of the Origin Roasted Coffee Awards, organized in France by the Agency for the Valorization of Agricultural Products (AVPA), where Cameroon won five of the nine prizes. The awards were presented on April 4, 2018, in Yaoundé during the International Cameroonian Coffee Festival, held alongside the sixth General Assembly of the African and Malagasy Robusta Coffee Agency.
Most of Cameroon’s international honors have been for robusta, the country’s dominant coffee variety. NCCB figures indicate robusta production reached 10,377 tons in the 2024-2025 season, compared to 1,260 tons for arabica, an increase of 287 tons from the previous season. The Littoral and West regions together account for 71.6% of the national production of marketed coffee cherries.