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Through FSRP support, Dadala Community is beating climate change and scaling up vegetable productionIn Dadala Village, Sowa Chiefdom, Pujehun District, women have long…

James Karjia Lahai is a poultry farmer who lives in Waterloo, Western Rural District, Freetown, Sierra Leone. He is married and has a small-size family. James started…

The Deputy Minister of Agriculture II, Hon. Sahr Hemore, on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, has officially received a package of operational…

For many years, smallholder farmers in rural communities struggled to increase their yields despite their hard work and experience. Limited access to practical research and…

Two years ago, riverine farming communities across Sierra Leone lost an estimated 15% of their rice production due to flooding, resulting in reduced yields, lost incomes,…

On Tuesday, 27 January 2026, a consortium comprising the Regional Hub for Fertilizer and Soil Health for West Africa and the Sahel, the International Institute of Tropical…

The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security has launched the Ministry’s 2026 service delivery activities with a symbolic harvest of sweet peppers and the handover of four…

The West Africa Food System Resilience Program (FSRP), through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), has funded the construction of an ultra-modern…

Over the past two years, the World Bank–funded Food System Resilience Program (FSRP) has been supporting the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) to expand large-…

The Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI), in partnership with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Food System Resilience…