Local production

Haiti Anthropology Brief: Haiti Crops, Nutrition, and Prospects for Food Sovereignty

If Haitians are to produce carbohydrates and proteins in quantities competitive with US production of crops best suited to the North American climate and soils, then they will have to begin by doing the same that US farmers do, focus on crops best suited to be grown in Haiti. Yet, a puzzling thing about theRead More

FOOD AID Part II: Food Security and USAID, WFP and Destruction of Haitian Ag Economy

In 2008, two events occurred that suggested hope for Haiti’s agricultural sector, hope that the Machiavellian forces seen in FOOD AID PART I  would be eliminated and in their place the United States, its allies, and the humanitarian aid agencies that had for four decades carried out politically charged food relief programs would effect newRead More