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Claim: A Facebook user claims that food insecurity in Liberia is at 80 per cent.
Verdict: Misleading! Recent data from the Ministry of Agriculture’s Comprehensive Food Security and Nutrition Survey shows otherwise.
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A Facebook user, KMTV Liberia, claims (archived here) that food insecurity in Liberia is at 80 per cent.
The caption reads, “With 80% Food Insecurity, 1.48 Tons Per Hectare Rice Yield, and Only 1% of National Budget, has the Ministry of Agriculture Under Dr Alexander Nuetah Turned President Boakai’s Ambitious US$718 Million National Agriculture Development Plan Into Bold Rhetoric Without Implementation?”
As of Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2026, the post has generated 13 likes, three comments, and one share.
DUBAWA decided to verify the claim as part of its mandate to counter misinformation and disinformation and promote truth-telling in public discourse.
Verification:
Our researcher first contacted the claimant to request a source to support his claim, but he has since refused to respond.
The researcher then reviewed a Comprehensive Food Security and Nutrition Survey 2025 report published by the Ministry of Agriculture in February 2026. It shows that 20.7 per cent of households are food insecure, including 3.5 per cent severely food insecure and 17.2 per cent moderately food insecure. However, food insecurity varies between rural and urban areas.
World Food Programme 2025 Annual Country Report on Liberia also shows that 22.2 per cent of households in Liberia are food insecure. The report did disclose the percentage of households that are severely and moderately food insecure.
However, our researcher initially reviewed past data from several sources, including the 2023 Africa Regional Overview of Food and Nutrition Security, which reported food insecurity at 81%. This may have been the source of the data the claimant referenced.
Conclusion:
The claim that Liberia’s food insecurity stands at 80 per cent is misleading. Current data from the Ministry of Agriculture’s 2025 Comprehensive Food Security and Nutrition Survey show that food insecurity is relatively lower.