Date published
March 2013
LIBERIA CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT

Post-conflict Liberia faces myriad development challenges: establishing the rule of law, rebuilding infrastructure, re-invigorating the mining, rubber, timber, and agricultural export sectors. In terms of the population of Liberia, however, the greatest challenge is the condition of rural subsistence farmers. Nevertheless, the opportunity for the citizens of Liberia is rebuilding the country to be resilient in the face of climate change. Seizing this opportunity will be difficult in the current scarce-data environment as most of the information that existed prior to the civil wars was lost. To assist the Government of Liberia, the USAID-Liberia Mission tasked the US Forest Service International Programs to develop climate data, future climate projections, and assess climate vulnerability. The following summarizes the findings of the USFS team

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