The Government of Liberia has received an Adaptation Grant of US$8,840,629 million from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to finance the Building Climate Resilience Project (BCRP) in the Rice and Cocoa sectors. The project is designed to reach 25,000 smallholder farmers including 10,000 rice producers, 10,000 cocoa producers and 5,000 smallholder farmers from other enterprises of which at least 40% will be women and 40% young people. The goal of the BCRP is that livelihoods and climate change resilience of rural farming households are improved. The project development objective (PDO) is to promote agriculture as a business for enhanced incomes and reduced rural poverty. The project objective will be accomplished through the following three components:
Component 1: Climate-proofed agricultural production and post-harvest combined with livelihood diversification: This component will focus on household / village-level interventions in climate resilient and sustainable agriculture to reduce the negative impacts from climate change and climate variability, as well as to contribute to agricultural and rural livelihood development through income diversification.
Component 2: Climate resilient rural infrastructure: This component will focus on climate-proofed rural transportation, water, and storage infrastructure.
Component 3: Institutional capacity development and policy engagement: This component will focus on “supporting meteorological institutions and provide improved climate services to smallholder farmers and rural populations”.
The project is being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency.
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