Liberian Women Lead a Revolution in Agriculture
![Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, U.S. Representative to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome, meets with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia in August 2011. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130219034920im_/http://blogs.state.gov/images/Dipnote/behind_the_scenes/2011_0824_cousin_liberia_m.jpg)
About the Author: Ambassador Ertharin Cousin serves as U.S. Representative to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome.
As we continue to respond to the heartbreaking crisis in the Horn of Africa, it’s important to keep in mind that we are able to apply some lessons learned from our long term commitment to relief and development work elsewhere in Africa. The key, it seems to me, is to respond to the disaster while also building long term solutions to broader issues. Just before I visited refugee camps along the Somalia border last week, I traveled to Liberia to look into some of our longer term programs there. It was quite an amazing visit.
I was able to view firsthand the synergies between World Food Program… more »
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