Mining, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Archives

Mining Report Launch: Byen Konte, Mal Kalkile?
Mining Report Launch. The Haiti Support Group welcomes the launch of a new report entitled Byen Konte, Mal Kalkile? Human…
December 9, 2015
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Miners Next Door: New Haiti Support Group Briefing Out Now!
New Haiti Briefing Out Now! The Miners Next Door The Haiti Support Group's Haiti Briefing no. 77 is out now.…
August 12, 2014
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Food and the Multinational Takeover: The Global Fight for Food Sovereignty
Food and the Multinational Takeover: The Global Fight for Food Sovereignty The World Development Movement and the Haiti Support Group…
July 5, 2014
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Neglected islanders resist plan for Haiti tourism revival
April 6, 2014 By David Adams, edited by Prudence Crowther. Article courtesy of Reuters. Original can be read here. For decades the…
April 9, 2014
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Haiti’s wealth of untapped mining resources must benefit the poor
Source: The Guardian, 21 January 2014 Written by: Prospery Raymond More transparency and opportunities for public participation in mining…
January 22, 2014
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Aid or Trade? The Nefarious Effects of U.S. Policies
Aid or Trade? The Nefarious Effects of U.S. Policies Centre for Research on Globalization, November 6, 2013 By Haiti Grassroots…
November 9, 2013
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Attaining Proper Food Security
Attaining Proper Food Security From Haiti Support Group’s Haiti Briefing no 72 (October 2012) Attaining Proper Food Security Means Demanding Effective Food…
March 25, 2013
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Haitian farmers call for ‘food sovereignty’
March 21, 2013 Global Post original article here Hundreds of small farmers have converged on the central Haitian city of…
March 21, 2013
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Petrocaribe’s Oil to the Poor: Chávez Legacy in Haiti and Latin America
March 6, 2013 Kim Ives & Dan Coughlin, Haiti Liberté original article here Tens of thousands of Haitians spontaneously poured…
March 7, 2013
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Nervousness and Lack of Transparency Surround New Mining Permits
February 20, 2013, Kale Je/Grassroots Watch original article here Cadouche and Port-au-Prince, HAITI, 20 February 2013 – The population of…
March 6, 2013
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Phoenix Project… born again?
January 21, 2013 Kale Je/Grassroots watch original article here Port-au-Prince, HAITI, 22 January 2013 – For more than two years,…
February 4, 2013
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Subsidizing Starvation
January 11, 2013 Maura R O'Connor, Foreign Policy How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the…
January 15, 2013
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Report Urges US Lawmakers to Promote Agricultural Imports from Haiti
January 7, 2013, Caribbean Journal original article here The United States Congress should help foster agricultural imports from Haiti, according to…
January 8, 2013
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Resources & Mining: Haiti Awards Permits to Companies
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DECEMBER 21, 2012 original article here PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's government announced Friday that it has…
December 21, 2012
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More pressure needed to get clean water
December 12, 2012 Mark Weisbrot, Al Jazeera original article here Haiti is vulnerable to water-borne diseases like cholera because of…
December 14, 2012
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Haiti’s rising food insecurity risks social tension, says FAO
November 22, 2012 (Reuters) original article here (Rome) Growing food insecurity in Haiti after Hurricane Sandy risks sparking more social…
November 27, 2012
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Already Desperate. Haitian Farmers Left Hopeless After Storm
November 18, 2012RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD / The New York Times original article here FAUCHÉ, Haiti -- A woman who lost…
November 19, 2012
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FAO Seeks $74 million in Aid for Haitian Agriculture
November 6, 2012 Prensa Latina (original article here) United Nations, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations and the Government…
November 7, 2012
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Hurricane Sandy exposes Haiti’s agriculture and environment woes
Nov 1, 2012 Anastasia Moloney, Alertnet original article here Years of neglect of agriculture and disaster prevention in Haiti, coupled with…
November 6, 2012
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Haiti Third in Global Hunger Index
October 11, 2012 The latest Global Hunger Index report, out today, reveals Haiti's situation with respect to hunger is 'extremely alarming',…
October 11, 2012
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Haiti’s Second Goudougoudou: The Global Food Crisis
2 October 2012, by Mark Schuller, Huffington Post (original article) Having accompanied and translated for Haitian housing rights activist Reyneld Sanon…
October 3, 2012
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Gold Rush in Haiti
By Jacob Kushner, Guernica August 15, 2012 original article here Riches beckon from beneath Haiti's hills, and mining companies are…
September 12, 2012
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Gold Rush in Haiti! – Who will get Rich?
Haiti Grassroots Watch/Ayiti Kale Je, Wednesday 30 May 2012, 05:33am There’s a gold rush in Haiti. But a new investigation from…
June 6, 2012
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Post-quake US Food Aid Hurt Haiti Farmers
Senate to reconsider approach in distributing emergency resources. Jacob Kushner February 13, 2012 06:35 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In the months following…
February 18, 2012
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Five Years for Drop of Water
Photo: © Oxfam International Haiti Grassroots Watch, Port-au-Prince, 4 November 2011 – Two-and-a-half million dollars (US$2.5 million) to supply water…
November 11, 2011
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Seeding Reconstruction or Destruction?
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011 AT 08:51PM An investigation into the distribution of Monsanto and other seeds post-January 12 Port-au-Prince, March…
May 11, 2011
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Climate Change Worry in Struggling Haiti
Alertnet - Robert Shaw - February 25, 2011 PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (AlertNet) A month before a massive earthquake derailed…
March 1, 2011
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Miami Rice: The Business of Disaster in Haiti
By Beverly Bell and Tory Field December 9, 2010 As we file this article, Port-au-Prince is thick with the smoke…
December 9, 2010
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Uncoordinated and Unworkable Plan: Haiti Grassroots Watch Reports
Photo: Corail-Celesse - © Oxfam International Port-au-Prince, Haiti - nine months after the catastrophic earthquake which killed some 300,000 and…
October 19, 2010
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Oxfam Agronomist Wasley Demorne speaks at AGM
The Haiti Support Group held its Annual General Meeting in South London at Stockwell Methodist Church Hall on 19 June.…
August 30, 2010
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Sowing the seeds for a grassroots revival
Sowing the seeds for a grassroots revival. These are dark days in Haiti. The promise of economic renewal funded by…
May 28, 2010
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“Stop the food Aid,” Préval tells Obama
US Army/Flikr 8 March 2010 Haitian President Rene Preval plans to tell U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday that food…
March 8, 2010
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Haiti’s Natural and Built Environment
January 26, 2010
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No trees, no top-soil
No trees, no top-soil. Lethal mudslides highlight urgent need for reforestation, and agrarian reform – Haiti Support Group press release,…
May 24, 2004
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The Agronomist Screening
London audience gripped by Jean Dominique film – Haiti Support Group press release, 4 May 2004
April 29, 2004
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