Market Assessment for Skills in the Agribusiness and Construction Sectors in the Saint-Marc Region

Market Assessment for Skills in the Agribusiness and Construction Sectors in the Saint-Marc Region

The agriculture and construction sectors are two of Haiti’s main employment engines. Construction, in particular, is a dynamic source of existing and potential new jobs. Vocational education is necessary to prepare job candidates to meet the needs of employers. In the Saint-Marc area, the reopening of EMAVA has the potential to fill a vacuum in technical education left when the school closed more than a decade ago.

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Assessing the Market Viability of High-Quality, Fortified Peanut-Based Foods in Haiti. Part 2

Assessing the Market Viability of High-Quality, Fortified Peanut-Based Foods in Haiti. Part 2

Food preparation specialists have helped popular class Haitians adapt to the increasing obstacles to preparing meals at home and increasing poverty while still allowing them to obtain high calories at low cost. In the process they also earn income to support themselves and their families and invigorated the local economy.

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Plateau Central Market Research

Plateau Central Market Research

The market research presented in this report is drawn from several phases of investigation in Haiti’s Plateau Central (hereafter referred to as the Plateau) commissioned by the Clinton Foundation (hereon referred to as CF) and facilitated by TechnoServ Haiti, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) dedicated to “business solutions to poverty.”

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Impact Evaluation: Root Capital & Union des Coopératives Caféières de Baptiste (UCOCAB)

Impact Evaluation: Root Capital & Union des Coopératives Caféières de Baptiste (UCOCAB)

This report describes baseline data collected to help assess Root Capital’s impact on coffee production in one of its target regions of Haiti. The survey focused on farmers in the Savannette-Baptiste area of the Departement du Centre. Most of the respondents were members of cooperatives working with Root Capital (n=151); some were not (n=52).

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Assessment of Haitian Coffee Value Chain

Assessment of Haitian Coffee Value Chain

This document is structured in three main parts. The rst part consists of an overview of the current coffee market at the international and national level as well as a description of the importance of agriculture and coffee in Haiti. The next two parts are a product of interviews and workshops with almost all actors of the coffee chain in southern Haiti; these parts include a description of the coffee chain for the region and its actors, constraints analysis and recommendations.

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Seed System Security Assessment: Haiti

Seed System Security Assessment: Haiti

A Seed System Security Assessment (SSSA) was carried out in Haiti in May-June 2010. The work assessed the impact of the 12 January 2010 earthquake on households and agricultural livelihoods, including possible changes in assets, land holdings, labor availability, income generation activities, crop profiles and seed use.

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Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti. Immediate key initiatives for the future

Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti. Immediate key initiatives for the future

The Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti that we are presenting to our partners in the international community indicates the requirements to be fulfilled so that the earthquake, devastating as it was, turns into a window of opportunity so that, in the Head of State’s words, the country can be reconstructed. This is a rendezvous with history that Haiti cannot miss. We must obtain results; we owe it to our children and our children’s children.

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Haiti Productive Land Use Systems Project

Haiti Productive Land Use Systems Project

Neem (Azadirachta indica Adr. Juss.) is planted in Haiti for its hardiness and multiple purposes of shade, medicinal uses, wood, aesthetics and pest control. A neem trial at Roche Blanche was established in October, 1991 as a collaborative effort of SECID/Auburn University, Agridyne (now Biosys) and Double Harvest.

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