Agriculture

Empowering Entrepreneurs and Enabling Movement: Watu’s Impact in Remote Sierra Leone

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The economic ripple effects of Watu’s bike financing program are substantial. By facilitating the movement of people and goods, local businesses can thrive. Increased access to markets allows farmers and artisans to sell their products more widely, which boosts local commerce. By Mohamed Sheriff Bah In many remote areas of Sierra Leone, access to transportation […]

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Sierra Leone’s Climate-Resilient Transport Infrastructure

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The Sierra Leone Connectivity and Agricultural Market Infrastructure Project (CAMIP) will support all-season connectivity and access to jobs, markets, and services, particularly in rural areas where the lack of infrastructure has been a major barrier to economic development. The World Bank Board today approved a $74 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to enhance climate-resilient transport connectivity

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Iceland, WFP Support Sierra Leone’s School Feeding

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The Government of Sierra Leone has prioritized home-grown school feeding as a key component of its National School Feeding Policy, with considerable premium on its multi-faceted nature including linking school feeding activities to local food production and procurement that has the potential to induce social and economic development of communities. The United Nations World Food

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African Leaders Unveil Bold Transformation Agenda Backed by Powerful New Coalition

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In a historic show of unity, 19 African Heads of State assembled at a major summit committed to focusing development aspirations across the continent. This ambitious agenda, aiming to dramatically improve lives and create new opportunities, positions the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) as a cornerstone for success. Beyond pronouncements, the summit witnessed the

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Cultivating Seeds of Change in Sierra Leone

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New African Society (NAS), a youth-led Sierra Leone-based organization, is working for the development of self-sufficient communities to alleviate generations of poverty within the country. The organization offers services that promote the advancement of agricultural projects within the region, seeking to remedy a lack of opportunity for socioeconomic mobility and food insecurity.  “We have identified the

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OPINION: Time To Fix Broken Food Systems – Sierra Leone’s President Bio

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Countries must accelerate delivery of sustainable and healthy food systems, writes Julius Maada Bio, President of the Sierra Leone Food is what sustains us – or at least it should be. But our food systems are currently failing us at both an individual and planetary level. Rather than nourishing us with healthy, affordable food, a

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Sierra Leone: New Laws Give Farmers Power To Protect Lands

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In towns like Tonka, farmers seek advice from paralegals and human rights organizations to take advantage of legislation that can protect them from large corporations Aminata Bangura balances a banana tree on her head as she carefully descends a steep, slippery slope. Barefoot, she looks for firm ground in the mud. All around her are

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Is Feed Salone Possible? I believe That Not a Moment of Life is Wasted on a Farm

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By Aima Sow (Queen Lima) An agricultural life is one eminently calculated for human happiness and human virtue. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection. Agriculture is civilization. President Bio is a man of

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