Training 30 Female Farmers in Climate-Smart Agriculture Before the Next Farming Season
Women grow most of Liberia's food; yet they receive a fraction of its training and resources. Help BDI train 30 female farmers in climate-smart agriculture before the next farming season.
Decontee is 38 years old. She farms a plot in Sinoe County, Liberia. She has farmed since she was a girl, using the same land, the same methods, and facing the same unpredictable yields. For years, the farm kept her family alive. Just barely.
Decontee knew there had to be a better way. She just did not have access to it.
Then BDI's climate-smart agribusiness programme came to her community. Six weeks of training. Improved planting techniques. Crop rotation. Soil management. And something she had never been offered before: business planning for farmers.
"I did not need someone to save me. I needed someone to teach me. That is all any of us need."
Last harvest season, Decontee increased her yield by 35%. She harvested surplus. She sold it at the market for the first time in her life. With the income, she opened a savings account and paid her children's school fees without borrowing from anyone.
Decontee is one of 1,200 farmers BDI has supported. She is not the exception; she is the rule. When a female smallholder farmer in Liberia gets the right training and support, she transforms her household. Studies show women reinvest up to 90% of new income into their families.
BDI is raising $30,000 to train 30 more female farmers before December 31, 2026. Your investment does not disappear into a farm; it multiplies through a family, a community, and a county.
Every contribution helps train female farmers and build climate-resilient communities in Liberia.
Funds one full training session for a female farmer.
Funds a six-month programme for one farmer.
Trains 30 female farmers and transforms entire communities.