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This paper attempts to explore the effect of social capital and market outlet on female agripreneurship in Cameroon, while controlling for other correlates. This paper specifically seeks to verify if social and market outlet have any significant effect on female agripreneurship in Cameroon. This paper used the Cameroon household consumption survey 2014 and found that social capital (SC) has a positive effect on female agripreneurship. Also, the findings indicated that market outlet has a positive effect on female agripreneurship. We found that primary education is positively related to female agripreneurship while secondary education and tertiary education were significant but negatively associated with female agripreneurship. Lastly, access to land is a positive and a significant predictor of female agripreneurship while access to credit is negatively associated with female agripreneurship. As policy implication, access to market outlet should be reinforced since it will go a long way to increase sales hence agripreneurship. Female agripreneurs should be encouraged to acquire more social capital by way of membership in associations and employment promotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]