Category: Ag/Farming
Hurricane Matthew: UN seeks backing for $2.7bn Haiti recovery plan- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By: James Richards 7 Mar 17 The United Nations has called for $2.7bn to support the recovery of Haiti, which suffered widespread damage during Hurricane…
Haiti’s Charms and Challenges Keep Former Habitat Exec Mrs. Blake Motivated- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
March 2, 2017 | Phil BoltonMadam Sonia at the Love A Child Miracle Village in Haiti holding leaves from a Moringa tree often called the…
Haiti – FLASH : Venezuela becomes the poorest country, ahead of Haiti
While Haiti had occupied for many years the first place of the ranking of countries, as the poorest of the hemisphere, now it is dethroned…
‘Kombit’ Documents the Struggle to Reforest Haiti (Film Review)
http://planetsave.com January 31st, 2017 by Kyle Field We were recently treated to a preview screening of the film “Kombit” which unpacks the work being done…
A Phoenix Rising in Haiti
Smallholder farmers throughout the southwestern region of Haiti have risen up to begin rebuilding following the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew last October. One image…
Big Ten universities apply agricultural know-how to help Haiti
Kurt Stepnitz In 2016, Hurricane Matthew wreaked havoc upon the Atlantic seaboard and Caribbean islands. A Category 5 storm, Matthew’s effects were felt as far…
Pervasive charcoal trade getting major rethink in Haiti
MANICHE, Haiti – Pungent wood smoke wafts daily across the hinterlands of Haiti’s southern peninsula, where villagers stack smoldering wood beneath dirt mounds to make…
Massive distribution of building materials, three months after Matthew
MSF.ORG Jeanty Junior Augustin Distribution of aid packages by MSF in the most remote areas of Jérémie and Cayes After providing urgent medical care, Médecins…
Partnership Bringing Electricity to Haiti Orphanage
AUSTIN — Freedom Solar Power and ABC Home & Commercial Services teamed up to bring a 100 percent sustainable off-grid solar system to an orphanage…
The Farmers, Engineers, and Health Workers Helping Rebuild Haiti After Matthew
Mary Stokes We visited the most affected region to see how communities are recovering after the storm on October 4th, 2016. Two months after Hurricane…
Sowing seeds of hope for Haiti’s future
“I’ve seen good intentions among the NGOs,” Daniel Tillias said of the thousands of foreign non-governmental organizations that work in his home country of Haiti…
First Steps Towards Farm Recovery in Haiti
Last Friday my colleague Timote Georges and I were in the southwest of Haiti meeting with leaders representing the 1,200 farm families that we are…
Shipping containers arrive for Marietta City Schools’ Haiti project
Mary Kate McGowan MARIETTA — After three years of planning and preliminary work, Marietta School District’s engineering pipeline’s project will now become a reality. Thursday…
Emergency seed distributions help Haitian farmers grow for winter harvest
Men and women line up to receive bags of planting seeds in Jeremie, Grand’Anse Department, one of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Matthew. ©…
These heart-wrenching photos show what life after Hurricane Matthew is like in Haiti
Photos By Sarah L. Voisin. Writer Nick Kirkpatrick November 17 Nicole Duce, 43, holds her 5-month-old daughter, Fridzadora Loga, in the badly hit town of…
Haitian cacao farmers scramble to get their ‘success story’ back on track
PRI The World November 18, 2016 · 4:00 PM EST By Amy Bracken Members of the cacao co-op CAUD (Coopérative Agricol Union Développment) spread cacao…
With continuous support, storm-hit Haiti can make real and tangible progress – UNICEF
Following the passage of Hurricane Matthew in October 2016, there are still children at risk in Haiti, and 600,000 are still in need of aid….
Haiti: Hurricane Matthew – Situation Report No. 21 (11 November 2016)
Report from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Published on 11 Nov 2016 — View Original Download PDF (228.03 KB) This report is…
Haiti faces a ‘major food crisis’, its interim president says
11 November 2016 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Privert (in stripy shirt) toured some of the areas worst hit by Hurricane Matthew The international…
Haiti Opens a Drive to Vaccinate 820,000 as Cholera Flares
By REUTERS NOV. 9, 2016 LES CAYES, Haiti — Haiti has begun a large-scale vaccination campaign to battle a cholera flare-up after Hurricane Matthew, but…