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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

NY Times: US authorities will block imports of sugar produced in the Dominican Republic by company Central Romana, on suspicion of forced labor at its…

Il s’appelle Tony Rinaudo et fait des “miracles”. Grâce à la technique de cet agronome, des millions d’arbres ont repoussé en plein désert. Il tente…

his is the second installment of a two-part article. Click here to read part one.   The gangs running rampant in Haiti have created a…

This is the first of a two-part article. Haiti is dependent on food from outside the country, despite being a nation of farmers with tremendous…

If you will be in New York City on September 21st, we would like to invite you to attend an in-person panel presentation at Columbia…

I first met Mikhail Gorbachev in 1992 in Kyoto, Japan, when he was less than one year out of office. Although we went on to…

Conservationists find native magnolia for first time since 1925 after original habitat destroyed by deforestation A conservation team has rediscovered a native magnolia tree in…

This week 41 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter to USAID Administrator Samantha Power urging her to act to ensure food…

Dear Development Aid Agencies and International Institutions Active in Haiti, Our respective organizations provide a wide range of services in agriculture, healthcare and community development…

It is hard to hear anything positive about Haiti amid the cacophony of alarms being sounded about the dire state of the nation. And while…

There are few reasons for celebration at the moment in Haiti, but the arrival this week of cotton processing equipment imported from India is worthy…

A new Lavi Ti-Plantè Taskforce (“Farmer’s Life Taskforce”) was announced on October 13th as part of a White House Roundtable on Haiti. With a focus…

Recovery efforts are underway following Haiti’s recent earthquake, but officials have warned that many rural areas remain completely cut off without assistance of any kind….

For the last eight years the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) has been working with approximately 1,000 farm families in southern Haiti to improve their yields…