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By Glenn Lines, Chief of Party of the Forest Incomes for Environmental Sustainability (FIFES) Activity
Liberia holds the last large blocks of rainforests remaining in West Africa. Despite being home to two-thirds of those remaining blocks, Liberia and its communities who depend on rainforests to survive face the urgent threats of climate change, deforestation, and rural poverty.
Previous global development programs implemented by ACDI/VOCA and other organizations first established community forestry in Liberia. Since then, the five-and-a-half-year, US$16.8-million Forest Incomes for Environmental Sustainability (FIFES) Activity, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and implemented by ACDI/VOCA, has built on efforts to protect forests and expand the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities.
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