Liberia: Agra Calls for 10 Percent Budgetary Allocation for Liberia’s Agriculture

On a strategic three-day visit to Liberia, Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), called on the Liberian government to demonstrate its commitment to agricultural transformation by allocating at least 10% of the total national budget to the sector, in line with the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) framework.

In January of this year, in order to promote agrifood systems, Liberia…