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Haitian Farmers Honored at FAO 80th Anniversary Celebration

The Haiti-based Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) and its members were honored yesterday at a ceremony in the Rome headquarters of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)….

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Wynn Farm incendiée : Coup dur pour l’écologie Haïtienne

La Réserve écologique Wynne Farm a été incendiée dans la soirée du samedi 11 au dimanche 12 octobre 2025. Construite sur environ 30 hectares de…

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What Are The Major Natural Resources Of Haiti?

Haiti is a Caribbean nation located in the Greater Antilles archipelago. The nation shares the island of Hispaniola with a counterpart Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic. The country occupies an…

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Hope Beyond Haiti’s Headlines

Dear Lynn, Haiti is relentlessly portrayed in the media as a vortex of crises, as if the whole country was overrun by gangs with no…

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VF Foundation Supports Haiti

The VF Foundation recently released their 2024 Impact Report, which included the following two pages highlighting the results of the grant they very generously provided to the Smallholder Farmers…

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Dispelling the Fairytale Myth of Global Agriculture as a Battle Between Good and Evil

In his recent New York Times guest essay, Sorry, but This is the Future of Food, journalist and author Michael Grunwald suggests that significantly increasing support…

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Transforming Lives With SFA in Haiti

On the eve of Giving Tuesday, we asked members of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance in Haiti to let you know how donations to the SFA have changed…

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Microcredit Is Transforming the Lives of Women Entrepreneurs in Haiti: ‘Business Is in My Blood’

Article by Jeff Kaufman published in Ms. Magazine 8/18/2024   Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an average monthly salary…

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Empowering Mothers in Haiti

While the worsening humanitarian crisis in Port-au-Prince is now being described by the United Nations as “cataclysmic,” life goes on in the rest of the…

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Haitian Artists Capture the Spirit of Earth Day

Five Haitian artists offer a contribution to Earth Day with creations that celebrate trees. Most of the images coming out of Haiti at the moment…

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Get ready for one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, forecasters say

Conditions in the Pacific and ultra-warm Atlantic are ripe for a harvest of tropical storms, forecasters are warning by Anthony R. Wood Published Apr. 19, 2024,…

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Calling for the Agricultural Revival of Haiti

Calling for the Agricultural Revival of Haiti We urgently appeal to you for support so that the work of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) can…

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Supreme Tobacco Haiti Now Shipping Bohekio Maduro

Seven months after it debuted during the 2023 PCA Convention & Trade Show, Supreme Tobacco Haiti has started shipping its newest release. The new Bohekio Maduro…

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Four Stories of Hope and Possibility From Haiti

  We would like to end the year with four stories from the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) in Haiti that offer hope and suggest possibility…

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Planting Trees in Haiti to Help Save the Planet

According to Dr. Thomas Crowther, professor of ecology at the Swiss university ETH Zurich, we seem to being planting trees the right way in Haiti….

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Supporting and Saving the New Regenerative Revolution

A radically new approach to farming is taking the agricultural world by storm, but it is already under attack from greenwashing. This new methodology has…

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Haitian Farmers Play Key Role in New Global Agricultural Movement

A network of small farms in rural Haiti is at the forefront of a new global agricultural movement called regenerative agriculture. That this should be…

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Seeding Change in Haiti

A young Haitian tree planter was chosen for the cover of The VF Foundation’s Third Annual Impact Report released last week. Included among the impressive examples…

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Farmers United to Help Feed and Reforest Haiti

Haiti is a nation in chaos, but that is not the whole story. There is progress being made, even in the midst of the current…

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Would you like to live longer? Consider planting a tree.

Put down the apple. It’s the tree that can help keep the doctor away. In urban areas, trees shade sidewalks, absorb air pollution, deaden traffic…