Monrovia – The Farmers’ Cooperative of Tarlesson Farms, with 200,000 producers and farmers has announced that farmers across Liberia are not benefiting from seed crops and supplies given to them by international donors. And the World Bank, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and elected senators and representatives of those ten counties have been silent to our requests for farm aid. Citing the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) reports, the farmers union said 170,000 people in Liberia are food insecure and the number of hungry people could top 300,000. “We ask the World Bank, UN, UNDP, USAID, EU, African Development Bank, and other International partners, donors, investors (public/private, etc.) across the globe to adapt this challenge, and in this way, invest in the farmers directly, and thereby improve agriculture, food security, youth employment, and those in need,” the farmer grouped urged.

Source: Front Page Africa November 22, 2017 04:52 UTC