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Key issues on Agriculture in Haiti - an introduction |
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 Photo: © tressftf
“Instead of foreigners sending us food, they should give us the chance to grow our own.” – Rony Charles, Rice grower, Verrettes
Agriculture is the mainstay of the Haitian economy and we in the Haiti Support Group believe its revitalization has to be the foundation for realistic people-centric, poverty-reducing development strategy. Indeed, we and the peasant farmers groups we work with would go further. Nothing has done more to the depth of Haiti’s current problems than the deliberate marginalization and undermining of Haitian agriculture. Post-earthquake, Haitian farmers, particularly small and medium sized farmers, need to be the new center of attention.
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HSG visits Co-operative Agrikol Bab, Montaca, San Marc |
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Photo: Co-operative Agrikol Bab (KAB) irrigation system - © P Wearne/HSG
Grow it All: Making Water Flow Uphill
HSG, St Marc, March 2010 -- When engineers came to Montaca just outside the central coastal town of St. Marc in Haiti to do an appraisal of a broken irrigation system for Co-operative Agrikol Bab (KAB), their repair proposal seemed pure fantasy to local villagers. “They seemed to be suggesting they could make water flow uphill,” says KAB Preziden Emates Joseph. “No one believed them. Now we do.”
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