By Jeff Massah For Josephine George Francis, coffee is more than an agricultural commodity. It represents an opportunity to rebuild rural livelihoods, create jobs, empower women and young people, and reposition agriculture as a stronger engine of Liberia’s economic transformation. Her interest in agriculture is not new. A former Representative of Montserrado County and former Superintendent, Francis has continued to …

Press Release  As Liberia moves toward establishing a national framework for carbon governance, a new community-led initiative is seeking to ensure that the people whose lands and forests generate carbon benefits have a meaningful voice in shaping the rules that will govern them. NAMATI, Inc., a Delaware-based nonprofit and lead organizer of the Grassroots Justice Network, has awarded a grant …