Scaling up sustainable Land Management (SLM) to Strengthen Resilience of Local Communities to adapt to Climate Change effects. Liberia?s communities and livelihoods rely nearly completely on climate change-sensitive agriculture and natural resources for sustenance and income. Increasingly erratic rainfall and floods are causing widespread losses and diseases in crops and livestock and loss of rural infrastructure. Even irrigated areas, in these regions, depending on snow melt which is affected by temperature spikes.
Desperate communities have turned to available forests and rangelands for fuel, timber, and nuts causing large-scale deforestation and environmental degradation. This further diminishes the productivity and delivery of ecosystem goods and services on which they depend. A major challenge the local community faces is the continued lack of support for managing natural resources and agricultural extension services. They are ill-equipped and lack the resources to adopt

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adaptation measures in agriculture, or invest in rural infrastructure, that would improve their resilience to climate change-induced hazards.
Root Causes: Climate change in Liberia has a severe impact on different sectors of the economy. Increased frequency of floods and extreme weather events that are linked to climate change, combined with the high dependence of communities on climate-sensitive natural resources create serious challenges for food security and livelihoods.
Climate change-mediated disasters have "had a profound impact on the economy, lives, and livelihoods of people in Liberia. Extreme weather, high temperature and Floods are the most important climate change-induced hazards in Liberia.

Rural communities in Liberia constitute about 40% of its population. Eighty to eighty-five percent of Liberia communities are directly or indirectly dependent on climate-sensitive natural resources, including agriculture and livestock raising, and on ecosystem goods and services such as water, wild food, wood, firewood, and medicinal plants. Climate change is likely to compound existing chronic and acute food security.

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