Liberia: Can New Minister Break Liberia’s Agriculture Curse?

Aug 17, 2015 | Rodney D. Sieh, FrontPageAfrica
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In tipping the low-key, Dr. Moses Zinnah, head of the Agriculture Sector Rehabilitation Project, as only her third Minister of Agriculture, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is taking a gamble from within hopes of reviving a sector and Ministry many regard as one of the lowest performers of her presidency. The last two Ministerscame from the Diaspora and with high-profile credentials. Dr. J. Chris Toe, had risen from the rank of a professor to head the U.S.-based Strayer University while Dr. Florence Chenoweth, who had held the position, thirty years earlier and etched in history as the architect of the infamous 1979 rice riot.