Category: Ag/Farming
Honoring Haitian Agronomist Rémillot Léveillé
The Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) mourns the passing of Rémillot Léveillé (1929 – 2025), a highly respected agronomist who served as a trusted advisor when we set…
Haitian Farmers Transforming Their Land and Their Futures
While gangs control Port-au-Prince and dominate international headlines, life continues in rural Haiti where thousands of farming families are building soil, planting trees, and strengthening…
Harvard Business School Foundry Partners with Haiti Business Accelerator
Although not directly related to my usual subject of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance, I wanted to share some encouraging news about Haiti. Today the Haiti Business…
Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba; at least 28 dead – CBS News
CBS. People across the northern Caribbean are beginning to dig out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa, as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed to at…
Jamaica has a rich hurricane history but has avoided most powerful storms
As Hurricane Melissa slowly churns across the warm waters of the western Atlantic over the upcoming days, AccuWeather hurricane experts continue to sound the alarm…
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)….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…


















