New Water Policy and Practice Volume 1, Number 2 - Spring 2015 | Page 43

New Water Policy and Practice

As mentioned by the United Nations Development Program State of the
Environment Report (UNDP, 2006), about 70 percent of Liberia’s rural households
rely on food from their own farms or gardens. This suggests that forest clearing and
cash crops production are major practices carried out in other rural parts of Liberia
including Bong County. In fact, Bong County is the home of the Central Agricultural )I