The IDIAF and Taiwanese cooperation support Haitian agriculture
The Dominican Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (IDIAF) and the Taiwan Technical Mission in Haiti, have signed a tripartite agreement on technical cooperation, by which the Dominican Republic will...
View ArticleL’ECOLE NATIONALE CHARLES LASSEGUE AUX CAYES
Le Directeur General du FAES a visité ce weekend le chantier de l’Ecole Nationale Charles Lassegue aux Cayes, dans le Sud du pays. Fondée en 1939, l’école nationale Charles Lassègue a connu plusieurs...
View ArticleClinton, Four Seasons to Help Haiti Coffee Farms
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti October 9, 2013 (AP) A high-end Canadian hotel chain will soon be lending a hand to Haiti’s coffee farmers. The private foundation of former U.S. President Bill Clinton says Four...
View ArticleThree years later and 2.2 million trees greener.
From February 2010 — when we launched the Timberland agroforestry and tree nursery program, to December 2012, we planted 2.2 million trees in Haiti’s Gonaives region. Less than 2% of Haiti’s original...
View ArticleUSAID Funded Food Voucher Program Hurt Farmers, Favored U.S. Exports
A “test” food voucher program in the Grande Anse département (province) on Haiti’s southern peninsula promoted consumption of imported rather than local food for almost 18,000 families, despite claims...
View ArticleUn programme d’aide alimentaire pour Haïti, mais qui aide les fermiers des...
jeudi 10 octobre 2013 16 Enquête Article 1 d’une série de 6 P-au-P., 10 oct. 2013 [Ayiti Kale Je / AlterPresse] — Malgré les affirmations contraires, un programme d’« essai » de bons alimentaires dans...
View Article‘No Monsanto!’: World marches against GMO food
Get short URL People hold signs during one of many worldwide “March Against Monsanto” protests against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and agro-chemicals, in Los Angeles, California October 12,...
View ArticleWhy Is Haiti Hungry?
By Ayiti Kale Je , Haiti Grassroots Watch | Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Last May, the United Nations announced “6.7 million Haitians face food insecurity.” Aid organizations, development agencies, and the...
View ArticleCélébration de la journée mondiale de l’alimentation, Haïti mise sur la banane
Haïti s’apprête à célébrer avec le reste du monde mercredi 16 octobre prochain la journée mondiale de l’alimentation sur le thème : » Des systèmes alimentaires durables, au service de la sécurité...
View ArticleToday, in a first for Haiti, one group of farmers sponsored food aid for...
Jean-Robert Castin, representing farmers in Gonaives, giving rice, beans and cooking oil to Ametide Estimable, a farmer in Terre des Nègres. Today, in a first for Haiti, one group of farmers sponsored...
View ArticleFarmers to Feed the Hungry
By Mission of Hope, Haiti Published: Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 – 10:36 am PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 29, 2013 — Innovative Initiative Creates Sustainable Economy PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 29, 2013...
View ArticlePlant to help Haiti’s peanut farmers opens
The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The nonprofit group of public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer and a health care company have teamed up to open a factory to produce a nutritional supplement...
View ArticleHaiti Government Publicizes Its Cooperation and Support for ECCO2 Haiti Program
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI–(Marketwired – Nov. 20, 2013) - The Ministry of the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Rural Development for the Republic of Haiti publicized its cooperation and support to...
View ArticleHaiti switches on to solar power as sustainable electricity solution
Solar energy is clean, green and can help to solve Haiti’s power crisis. Now the world’s largest solar hospital is lighting the way. The new hospital in Mirebalais has 1,800 rooftop solar panels. Solar...
View ArticleCDC warns of mosquito-borne virus in Caribbean
Dozens of cruise ships set sail each week in winter from Miami Beach, Fla., and many of them make stops at multiple ports in the Caribbean, where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
View ArticleSolar Micro-Grid Aims to Boost Power and Food in Haiti
EarthSpark, the project’s leader, won a Powering Agriculture grant for clean energy development. A little girl reads by the light of a solar home system in Les Anglais, Haiti. The nonprofit EarthSpark...
View ArticleLessons learned: growing rice in Haiti and Vietnam
A new method for coaxing more rice from the land with less water and fertilizer is beginning to take root in Haiti–as it has in Vietnam. Six months after visiting their counterparts in Vietnam to...
View ArticlePartnership brings clean water to communities in Haiti, Peru
LIMA, Jan. 6 (UPI) — An international partnership forged in the United States is bringing clean water to underprivileged communities in Haiti and Peru and further afield in Malawi, Africa. Oregon...
View ArticlePumpkin Soup with Sora and Junior
By Buildingaschool: My New Year Posted on January 5, 2014 Back at home, I always stay up on New Years’ Eve but we don’t really do anything special – maybe there are some extra treats on hand for...
View ArticleHaiti to plant millions of trees to boost forests and help tackle poverty
The Guardian.com Government-backed campaign aims to double Caribbean country’s forest cover by 2016 Haiti was once covered in verdant forests but land clearance for colonial plantations was followed by...
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