{"id":206472,"date":"2025-09-07T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-as-climate-change-drives-more-farmers-into-the-forests-ambitious-boakai-forestry-sector-reform-is-yet-to-help-local-communities\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:07:50","slug":"liberia-as-climate-change-drives-more-farmers-into-the-forests-ambitious-boakai-forestry-sector-reform-is-yet-to-help-local-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-as-climate-change-drives-more-farmers-into-the-forests-ambitious-boakai-forestry-sector-reform-is-yet-to-help-local-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: As Climate Change Drives More Farmers Into the Forests, Ambitious Boakai Forestry Sector Reform Is Yet to Help Local Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Residents of Garwin Community Forest in River Cess say logging companies have failed to deliver promised benefits and abandoned more than 1,000 logs. Leaving workers unpaid and commitments unfulfilled.<\/li>\n<li>The community is demanding compensation and the return of their forest, as experts condemn weak oversight and conflicts of interest allow logging companies to neglect obligations, leaving rural communities powerless.<\/li>\n<li>Three forces are impacting the forestry sector: major government reform, climate&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509050290.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Garwin Community Forest in River Cess say logging companies have failed to deliver promised benefits and abandoned more than 1,000 logs. Leaving workers unpaid and commitments unfulfilled. The community is demanding compensation and the return of their forest, as experts condemn weak oversight and conflicts of interest allow logging companies to neglect obligations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,24987,7324,7796,6239,7103,12760,3030,14611,9600,4712,1107,7823,257,6099,5991,254],"class_list":["post-206472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambitious","tag-boakai","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-communities","tag-drives","tag-farmers","tag-forestry","tag-forests","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-reform","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}