Through investment, Sierra Leone plans to build critical infrastructure to upscale its agricultural production to mitigate food insecurity and expand exports. Sierra Leone is taking on chunks of ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Rice borders on the sacred in Sierra Leone. Unless a meal includes rice, people say, you haven’t eaten at all. But as prices soar, consumers in the West African nation ...

On the road north out of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s bustling capital, the urban streets give way to lush rural countryside, exposing the backbone of the country – its farmers. In Port Loko, some 85km ...

For more than 30 years, The World Food Prize has sought to enlist young people to help solve problems of world hunger. Now it's extending those efforts abroad to countries where hunger is an ...

Bora—a type of thank you gift—is a Sierra Leonean custom of respect that is often used in relation to land. For instance, informal farmers pay bora to landowners to be able to farm on their land. But ...

In his office in Freetown, Kandeh Yumkella, chair of the Presidential Initiative on Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Food Security in President Julius Maada Bio’s government, is outlining a plan ...

FREETOWN, December 15, 2022 – An additional 516,700 people in Sierra Leone will benefit from a $50 million International Development Association (IDA)* additional financing approved today under the ...

Women are vital to food production in Sierra Leone. golero/Getty Images Bora – a type of thank you gift – is a Sierra Leonean custom of respect that is often used in relation to land. For instance, ...