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Liberia: 25,000 Smallholder Farmers to Benefit From U.S.$8.84 Million Building Climate Resilience Project
FrontPageAfrica, 20 December 2021
As part of efforts to enhance the agriculture sector and promote climate change in the country, the government of Liberia has received an adaptation grant of US$8.84 million from… Read more »
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Liberia: BRAC Liberia Begins Food Security and Capacity Building Training for 7500 Smallholder Farmer's
FrontPageAfrica, 7 December 2021
BRAC Liberia has begun the Liberia Food Security and Rural Capacity-Building Project. The initiative that is expected to target new smallholder farmers' household in Margibi, Bong… Read more »
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Liberia: Farming in the Heat - How Changing Weather Pattern Could Be Altering Liberia's Agriculture
FrontPageAfrica, 5 November 2021
Over 80% of Liberia's 4.5 million population earns less than $2 dollars per day and relies primarily on small-scale subsistence farming for their for sustenance. Read more »
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Africa: How Climate Change Will Hit Small Farmers - And How Adaptation Helps #AfricaClimateCrisis
allAfrica, 29 October 2021
Rising temperatures and a decline in rainfall across eight Southern and East African countries are set to slash the production of important food crops in the region by 2050, says a… Read more »
Liberia's Small Farmers Get Funding Boost #AfricaClimateCrisis
More than 25,000 smallholder farmers will benefit from a U.S$8.84 million grant by the International Fund for Agriculture Development to finance the Building Climate Resilience Project, as part of efforts to enhance the agriculture sector.
It looks to support 10,000 rice producers, 10,000 cocoa producers and 5,000 smallholder farmers from other enterprises, largely women and young people, to improve the livelihoods and climate resilience of rural farming households in Bong County.
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Rising temperatures and a decline in rainfall across eight Southern and East African countries are set to slash the production of important food crops in the region by 2050, says a ... Read more »
