After years of civil war and a struggling economy, farmers and entrepreneurs in Liberia are learning the skills they need for success with help from LSU AgCenter experts and others that are part of a federally funded project.
The five-year, $75 million Food and Enterprise Development project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The project began in 2011 and has three main goals: increasing agriculture productivity and food security, improving educational opportunities, and creating economic growth and a better business climate.
“The LSU AgCenter’s role is to support the project effort with food security and building human resource capacity,” said Carl Motsenbocker, a horticulture professor and the principle investigator for the AgCenter’s part of the project.