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LIBERIA COUNTRY REPORT

LIBERIA COUNTRY REPORT. CARD Group 2 Regional NRDS Workshop AfricaRice Center – Cotonou, Benin July 5-9, 2010 By J.Q. Subah, M. Zinnah & S. Subah. BACKGROUND. Liberia has a population of 3.5 million Total land area is about 43,000 square miles

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LIBERIA COUNTRY REPORT

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  1. LIBERIA COUNTRY REPORT CARD Group 2 Regional NRDS Workshop AfricaRice Center – Cotonou, BeninJuly 5-9, 2010 By J.Q. Subah, M. Zinnah & S. Subah

  2. BACKGROUND • Liberia has a population of 3.5 million • Total land area is about 43,000 square miles • Rice is a strategic and food security crop in Liberia. • It is the staple food for most Liberians. • It is produced by 71% of the estimated 400,000 farm families, using traditional slash and burn shifting cultivation.

  3. STRATEGIC PLANNING DOCUMENTS • “Policy Intent Statement” (2006): Outlined policy options for consideration. • Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (2006): Laid foundation for rehabilitation of agriculture sector. • Comprehensive Assessment of the Agriculture Sector in Liberia (CAAS-LIB) (2007): Comprehensive assessment of the agricultural sector and identified priority programs for development. • Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) (2008): Acknowledges and articulates the country’s aspiration for achieving the UN Millennium Development Goal #1: Halving of hunger and extreme poverty by 2015. Agriculture is the engine of growth.

  4. STRATEGIC PLANNING DOCUMENTS (Cont’d) • Food and Agriculture Policy Strategy (FAPS) (2008): Developed within the context of the PRS, it accentuates policies and associated strategies to harness and utilize the potentials of the large number of smallholder farmers in the agriculture sector. • Draft Liberia National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS) (March 2009): Outlines Government’s rice development strategy up to 2018.

  5. STRATEGIC PLANNING DOCUMENTS (Cont’d) • Liberia Agriculture Sector Investment Project (LASIP) (2009): • Developed within the context CAADP), it identifies four major pillars for investment in the sector: (1) Food and nutrition security, (2) Competitive value chains and market linkages, (3) Institutional Capacity Development, and (4) Land and water development. • Endorsed at ECOWAS/CAADP Business Meeting in Dakar, Senegal in June 2010.

  6. Guinea Sierra Leone LOFA GBARPOLU Cote d'Ivoire GRANDCAPE MOUNT NIMBA BONG BOMI MONTSERRADO MARGIBI GRAND BASSA GRAND GEDEH RIVERCESS SINOE RIVER GEE GRAND KRU MARYLAND Rice Production Map of Liberia LEGEND Leading Rice Producing Medium Rice Producing Unclassified Atlantic Ocean

  7. MAIN RICE ECOLOGIES • Upland ecology: Comprising about 400,000 small-holder farm families constitutes the major mode of rice production. • Lowland ecology: Mainly rain-fed; about 2% utilization; with less than 1% irrigated.

  8. Production Targets (Rainfed Upland)

  9. Production Targets (Rainfed Lowland)

  10. Production Targets (Irrigated Lowland, Double Crop)

  11. Capacity Development Targets (Research Specialists)

  12. Capacity Development Targets (Research Assistants/Technicians)

  13. Capacity Development Targets (Extension Workers)

  14. Priority Sub-Sectors • Human resource capacity development • Seed & germplasm improvement • Productivity & quality improvement • Value addition/market access • Land development, irrigation & water management • Fertilizer & other agro inputs

  15. Partners • Other ministries/agencies, training & research institutions, NGOs, private sector &civil society – broad-based consensus on priority setting for the agric sector, especially rice sub-sector within the context of LASIP. • JICA - emergency rice initiative & rice data collection • USAID - seed improvement, value chain, private sector development, infrastructure & institution capacity building • EU – agribusiness, private sector development, microfinance • FAO - seed sector development & seed multiplication • GTZ - irrigation infrastructure & seed lab development • IRRI - germplasm restoration • AfricaRice Center - germplasm restoration, varietal evaluation and emergency rice initiative & capacity building • AfDB - rice value chain, seed sector development, irrigation infrastructure & capacity building • IFAD - rice value chain & seed sector development • World Bank - development of MRU regional food security program & institution capacity building • SIDA, DANIDA, UK, etc.

  16. Governance & M&E of NRDS • No formal governance & M&E system is currently in place for the NRDS. Efforts are being made to put into place a formal system. Meanwhile, the following interim governance structure is currently in place: MINISTER National Seed Committee Technical Task Force Stakeholders

  17. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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