Liberian households continued to face significant vulnerability to food insecurity, shaped by poverty, weak markets, and limited livelihood diversification. Structural risks remained most acute in rural areas where deprivation, large household sizes, and high rates of female-headed homes heightened the strain.

Persistent undernutrition remained a concern, with 26.3 per cent of children stunted and 8.5 per cent wasted, reflecting inadequate diets, recurring illness, and poor market access driven by long travel distances and seasonal transport cost spikes. Smallholder farmers – the predominant workforce – faced persistent constraints including lack of improved seeds, limited mechanisation, and high post-harvest losses, despite a 38 per cent increase in rice production in 2025.

Against this backdrop, in 2025 Action Against Hunger deployed an integrated, multisectoral approach, strengthening health systems across 25 facilities in Nimba, Margibi, and Montserrado, through infrastructure upgrades, health worker training, community health system support, and thematic studies on medical waste management, gender, protection, and mental health.

Simultaneously, the ASPIRE project, funded by Irish Aid, expanded multisectoral nutrition, WASH, FSL, and climate-resilient agriculture interventions in Rural Montserrado and Margibi. Building on earlier gains from the Liberia WASH Consortium, ASPIRE focused on improving child nutrition, strengthening market links, enhancing climate-adapted food production, and supporting community governance structures.

Across both programmes, Action Against Hunger played an active role in national food security and nutrition coordination platforms, contributing to improved communication, evidence generation, and advocacy to strengthen outcomes for mothers and children, particularly in high-vulnerability counties.