West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP)

The West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme is a sub-regional initiative launched by ECOWAS with the financial support of the World Bank, Spain, Denmark and Japan to increase agricultural productivity through regional integration. Specifically, the programme supports for the generation and dissemination of technologies as well as production innovations of agricultural priority sectors of recipient countries. In Liberia, the WAAPP aims to enhance food security, reduce importation of rice and increase incomes of smallholder rice producers, and to generate and accelerate the adoption of improved technologies in priority crops of Liberia including rice. The project will be concentrated in eight counties: Grand Gedeh, Sinoe, Maryland, River Gee, Gbarpolu, Margibi, Bong and Bomi.