Ending hunger now: An analysis of the challenges facing the food system in Hait
INTRODUCTION Haiti faces extensive structural food and nutritional insecurity, in part due to the high levels of extreme poverty affecting a quarter of its population. According to an evaluation by...
View ArticleHaitian Farmers Get Early Christmas Gift That Keeps on Giving
Christmas came early for a group of farmers in southern Haiti with the arrival earlier this month of 22 goats, 9 cows and 5 bulls. The entire community greeted the livestock with much cheering,...
View ArticleTaiwan, Haiti expand cooperation in environmental protection
The letter of intent was signed during the Haitian delegation’s visit to Taiwan (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Taiwan and Caribbean diplomatic ally Haiti inked Dec. 19 a letter of...
View ArticleHaiti records 45 deaths from diphtheria
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Haiti has recorded nearly 350 probable cases of diphtheria in 2017 with at least 45 deaths, according to official figures released here. The health authorities said...
View ArticleEconomic recovery for 4,500 farm families and fishermen in the Northwest
Haiti Libre: With financial assistance from the Government of Canada of $400,000 and technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in support of the...
View ArticleTransplantation of 85,000 mangrove seedlings
Haiti Libre: Following the study conducted by UN-Environment Haiti, supported by the Ministry of the Environment in January 2017, to identify threats, pressures and constraints underwent mangrove...
View ArticleHaitian soup joumou is a New Year tradition. But can you change the recipe...
By Jacqueline CharlesFor Miami.com There is no shortage of food traditions to ring in the new year. There are black-eyed peas and popping 12 grapes with every chime of the clock. Then there is pumpkin...
View ArticleBlood, sweat and sugar: Trade deal fails Haitian workers on DR plantations
by Amy Bracken @brackenamy July 16, 2015 5:00AM ET Cane cutters work overly long days for poor pay in violation of Dominican labor laws and international agreement A worker cuts sugar cane at Batey...
View ArticleMidwest Food Bank to have new location in Haiti
NORMAL, Ill. – Midwest Food bank announces plans for a new location in Haiti. The Haiti division, founded in December 2017 is the organization’s 9th division and 2nd international division. The goal...
View ArticleDominicans want to build a dam on the river Artibonite- Added COMMENTARY By...
Haiti Libre: Dominican Senator Adriano Sánchez Roa of the Elías Piña Province informed that the funds for feasibility studies and the subsequent construction of the Artibonite hydroelectric plant in...
View ArticleSmallholder Farmers Have Reason to Smile in Haiti
Sometimes a smile can convey more than all the technical reports and excel forecast sheets combined. That was certainly the case last week at a cotton field trial site in Haiti as smallholder farmer...
View ArticleLaying the foundation stone of the 6th Plant Propagation Center
Haiti Libre: Saturday Jovenel Moïse accompanied by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant and members of the Government went to Grand Pré (Quartier Morin) in the North for the laying of the first stone of...
View ArticleTimberland Is Helping Rebuild Haiti’s Cotton Industry
Can using blockchain to verify cotton as organic help revive the industry in Haiti? By Ben Schiller Haiti hasn’t grown cotton in decades. Its once-abundant industry collapsed in the 1970s due to...
View ArticleTimberland Is Helping Rebuild Haiti’s Cotton Industry
Photo: Thomas Noreille / SFA Can using blockchain to verify cotton as organic help revive the industry in Haiti? by Ben Schiller Haiti hasn’t grown cotton in decades. Its once-abundant industry...
View ArticleLe Rhum Barbancourt d’#Haiti, meilleur de la Caraïbe
“Pa gen rezon pou Aysyen ap enpòte kleren dominiken ki pa menm asiste tiraj. Se sèl Barbancourt ki bann Koup.” #Barbancourt_Bann_Koup —Li Chanpyon sou yon #Bann_Baka_Raz !!! #LeReCit @rhumbarbancourt...
View ArticleWhat’s in store for 2018: Haiti ministry has building project, farming on its...
Because of God’s Planet for Haiti and its founder, Jemps Maignan, 70 preschool through fifth-grade students are receiving a Christian education, hot meals and a chance at a better life with their...
View ArticleFLASH! FLASH! FLASH! WHO IS PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT – PINE FOREST- LE...
Feb 26, 2018 Haiti has very little of anything left, and there is no concerted effort to save what little remains. It is sad that those who are serving our President, Jovenel Moise, have little or no...
View ArticleRotarians from some 175 countries who gathered for their annual international...
It would be hard to find a more diverse group than the 25,000 Rotarians from some 175 countries who gathered for their annual international conventionlast week in Toronto. I noted this in my opening...
View ArticlePutting Haiti’s Unrest in Context
To understand the riots in Haiti in response to last Friday’s announcement of fuel price increases, you have to go back to 1815 when Simón Bolívar landed in the newly formed nation of Haiti and asked...
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