DAKAR, Senegal – Liberia has introduced a daring US$900 million Legacy Funding Program on the Africa Meals Programs Discussion board (AFS Discussion board) 2025 in Dakar, Senegal, demonstrating a renewed nationwide dedication to meals safety, rural prosperity, and inclusive financial progress.
The Discussion board, scheduled from August 31 to September 5, 2025, is beneath the theme: “Africa’s Youth: Main Collaboration, Innovation, and Implementation of Agri-Meals Programs Transformation” and has attracted over 6,000 contributors from 113 international locations, together with policymakers, personal sector representatives, farmers, youth innovators, and improvement companions.
Presenting Liberia’s Legacy Program, Agriculture Minister Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah described the initiative as a cornerstone of the nation’s agricultural transformation agenda, which he stated was cardinal to its push for meals self-sufficiency, improved diet, rural job creation, and poverty discount.
“The Legacy Funding Program focuses on growing productiveness by offering the best inputs, infrastructure, expertise, and companies throughout agricultural worth chains,” he stated.
The initiative facilities on rice, maize, espresso, cassava, and oil palm, with formidable manufacturing objectives aimed toward decreasing import reliance, growing exports, and creating employment alternatives.
These embrace 50,000 hectares of rice to attain self-sufficiency, 20,000 hectares of maize for meals and livestock feed, and 15,000 hectares of espresso to revive export markets.
Moreover, 20,000 hectares of cassava shall be cultivated to reinforce meals safety and agro-processing, and 18,000 hectares of oil palm shall be planted to spice up edible oil provide and international trade earnings.
The launch has already attracted robust worldwide curiosity, with high-level delegations from Germany and Eire, together with improvement companions reminiscent of AGRA and the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis, endorsing Liberia’s technique. Eire reaffirmed its longstanding help for nutrition-sensitive agriculture, ladies’s empowerment, and climate-smart practices in Liberia.
“Liberia affords an enabling atmosphere for agribusiness funding, with robust incentives and a twin foreign money regime that draws personal traders,” Minister Nuetah emphasised, reassuring potential traders of the supportive atmosphere for agribusiness, with authorities incentives aimed toward encouraging sustainable personal sector participation.
He added that this system aligns with Liberia’s improvement imaginative and prescient of attaining lower-middle-income standing by 2030, decreasing unemployment, and growing GDP per capita from $866 in 2024 to US$1,115 by 2030.
“This US$900 million plan is greater than a nationwide technique; it’s a roadmap for partnerships that may ship prosperity throughout Africa’s meals programs,” he remarked.
The Legacy Program on the Africa Meals Programs Discussion board goals to show a rustic’s meals system priorities into sensible, investment-ready initiatives that may be funded and applied over a number of years for lasting impression.
These packages assist international locations speed up progress by working with companions to develop resilient, inclusive, and sustainable agri-food programs. This annual occasion supplies a dependable platform for launching these initiatives and selling collective options.
