Food and Enterprise Development Program for Liberia (FED): Monthly Report: October 2012

The Food and Enterprise Development (FED) Program for Liberia, a USAID-funded initiative, aims to help the government of Liberia and the country achieve food security — in terms of food availability, utilization, and accessibility — by building an indigenous incentive structure that assists a range of agricultural stakeholders to adopt commercial approaches.This incentive structure will be built upon improved technology for productivity and profitability, expanded and modernized input supply and extension systems, commercial production, marketing, and processing, enterprise services, and workforce development.

In October 2012, the updating of the input supplies interventions action plan from September to December 2012 was finalized; a regional director for the Northern and West Africa Division paid a visit to the project; integrated soil fertility management training was conducted; harvest continued; implementation of the Goat Pass-on Schemes began; numerators underwent a data collection training; three interns completed the training to build their skill set in project management and technology in agriculture; an information and communication technology assessment was conducted; a capacity building training workshop for FED’s interns was held; a contest was held in celebration of World Food Day; the review of the Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan was near completion; findings and recommendations on FED’s data management and reporting system were responsed;  the year two program was prepared.