A unique international collaboration is giving Washington State University landscape architecture students the chance to shape a community-centered agricultural future in Liberia.
A unique international collaboration is giving Washington State University landscape architecture students the chance to shape a community-centered agricultural future in Liberia.
In partnership with Perkins & Will Architects and Women in Agriculture for Sustainable Development (WASUDEV), the third-year students spent the fall semester designing a landscape plan and regenerative agriculture demonstration site for a new “food hub” in Careysburg, Liberia. The project was led by Dan Cronan, assistant professor in WSU’s School of Design and Construction.
WASUDEV, a women-led agricultural cooperative based in Monrovia, approached the partners seeking designs for a space where local women farmers could store produce, start seedlings, and maintain a community seed bank — critical needs in a region facing monsoons, drought cycles, and limited access to traditional grocery markets.
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A WSU landscape architecture student presents one of the final designs for a Liberian “food hub” to associates at Perkins & Will Architects on Bainbridge Island (Photo Credit: WSU).
