When a democratically elected government was installed in 2006 after years of civil war, Liberia was in disarray. The new government decided to promote large-scale land deals as a tool to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). Ciata Bishop (former Executive Director of Liberia’s National Investment Commission and Director General of the National Bureau of Concessions) was an integral part of the team responsible for negotiating and renegotiating large-scale agricultural contracts in the immediate post-war period. In this first instalment of IISD’s Stories of Change series, we speak with Ciata to understand how concession agreements and the laws governing them were used to enhance sustainable investment in agriculture.
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- IISD, 2021
