Liberia: Kwaipai Africa promotes urban agriculture
Trains over 30 urban farmers on peri-urban agriculture
The New Dawn
Oct 23, 2023
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The training and technical support are meant to build the capacities of urban farmers by providing knowledge, skills, and vegetable seeds to enable the farmers to grow food for their households and the local market.
The training brought together urban farmers, mostly women from within the GSA Road Community and its environs who are being recruited and supported by the organization for livelihood incomes.
Urban agriculture is the cultivation of crops and the raising of animals in urban communities. This form of agriculture was introduced in Liberia immediately after the civil crisis to create jobs for the poor residents and to help sustain their food security.
Speaking in an interview with this paper, Ebenezer Kukai, founder of the Kwaipai Africa believed that bringing these urban farmers together will give them some fundamental understanding of how to produce or grow what they eat.
“We want them to get some technical support and training because we can’t give you materials without technical knowledge and skills about the materials.”
He said that training the farmers and providing technical assistance such as seedings and other garden materials will help them do better in their production when they go back into their various communities.
At the end of the one-day training program, participants were provided vegetables and seeds to enable them to establish a backyard garden to grow more food for their communities.
