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Le prix du riz a connu une baisse de 4% selon le secrétaire d’état a l’agriculture.

edlineaugustin@gmail.com Oct 11 12:38PM Le prix du riz a connu une baisse de 4% selon le secrétaire d’état a l’agriculture Le secrétaire d’Etat à la…

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In rural Haiti, looking for a way to make clean water sustainable

Dieu Nalio Chery/AP – A woman arrives at Wharf Jeremie to fill her two containers with water that she will use to wash her dishes,…

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The Cost Of Saving Lives With Local Peanuts In Haiti

by Dan Charles All Things Considered [8 min 20 sec] Download Enlarge Alex E. Proimos/flickr How much extra would you pay for local food? It’s…

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Haiti Commission Meets on Food Prices

Above: a meeting of the price control commission in Port-au-Prince (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s recently-established Commission on Price Control met…

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Haiti’s Central Bank, IFC Partner to Expand Leasing Infrastructure

Above: a waterfront rehabilitation project in in Port-au-Prince (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Banque de la Republique d’Haiti central bank and…

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Haiti’s Second Goudougoudou: The Global Food Crisis

Having accompanied and translated for Haitian housing rights activist Reyneld Sanon on his recent trip to Washington, it became all too evident from many sectors:…

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Haitians ignore gov’t ban on plastic bags

Children wait in line to sell plastic bottles at a Haiti recycling office in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. Haitian merchants on…

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Haiti plastics ban gets mixed reaction from cost-conscious poor

By Susana Ferreira PORT-AU-PRINCE | Mon Oct 1, 2012 3:02pm EDT (Reuters) – Haiti imposed a ban on plastic and foam food containers as well…

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Haiti’s new environmental turn delights, dismays

Haitians, like this woman, are being forced out of living in Haiti’s Parc La Visite national park — a new effort to help the country’s…

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One Seed, One Hundred Women: Hope for a Better Life in Kenscoff, Haiti

Editor’s Note:  This article is part of our “A Community Comes Clean” series about nonprofits making a difference around the world.  To read the first…

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Haiti: World Bank Strategy to Include Focus on Cholera, Housing, Energy

Above: a tent camp in Haiti (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff The World Bank has approved a new two-year strategy for the…

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AP INTERVIEW: Haiti PM sees mining law draft in 6 months, could set royalties of 9 percent

UNITED NATIONS — Haiti’s government hopes to introduce a new mining law within six months that could set royalty rates of between 9 and 12…

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Haiti: thousands protest corruption, rising prices-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Several thousand people took to the streets of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti’s second largest city and the capital of North department, on Sept. 21 to protest a…

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Haiti: thousands protest corruption, rising prices

Several thousand people took to the streets of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti’s second largest city and the capital of North department, on Sept. 21 to protest a…

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Haiti bans plastic bags, foam containers-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Haitian government issues presidential decree banning black plastic bags and foam containers A woman sells plastic bags that will soon be banned in Haiti, in…

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Lizard, rare coral reefs complicate multimillion-dollar Haiti seaport project

A multimillion-dollar port project billed as critical to Haiti’s economic development faces more U.S.-led environmental surveys. A look at the channel of Fort Liberté By…

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Haiti – Economy : The 300.000 bags of rice will not come from the U.S.

Thursday the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe gave more details on the origin of the rice and the government’s strategy with immediate effect, in the short,…

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Slow-motion catastrophe: Homes, crops lost as Haitian, Dominican lakes mysteriously expand

By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, September 17, 10:03 AM BOCA DE CACHON, Dominican Republic — No one thought much about it when the largest lake in the…

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Haiti – Agriculture : Distribution of young goats to small farmers

Thursday, as part of the program “Aba Grangou” the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR) has gathered the main local authorities, farmers’…