Liberia: 50 Trained in Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture

More than 50 participants comprising farmers' organizations, cooperating partners, local government officials, and Bong County Technical College students recently completed a three-day nutrition-sensitive agriculture training in Gbarnga, Bong County.

The workshop was carried out by the World Food Program (WFP) and Samaritans' Purse International, aimed at providing farmers the required knowledge to enhance their full involvement in the implementation of the Japanese supported Smallholder Agriculture Development Project's (SHAD-P) activities, especially the importance of nutrition within the food system. The exercise also afforded participants, particularly rural women, the opportunity to learn best practice concepts in the production of food with high nutrition contents.

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