New World Bank Financing to Support an Additional 36,000 Farming Households and Address Liberia’s Food Security Crisis

WASHINGTON, December 22, 2022 – The World Bank approved an Additional Financing to the Rural Economic Transformation Project (RETRAP-AF) to the tune of $30 million in concessional International Development Association (IDA)* credit to improve productivity and market access for smallholder farmers and agri-enterprises for selected food value chains, especially for rice.

This financing,…