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Haiti switches on to solar power as sustainable electricity solution

Solar energy is clean, green and can help to solve Haiti’s power crisis. Now the world’s largest solar hospital is lighting the way. The new…

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Haiti Government Publicizes Its Cooperation and Support for ECCO2 Haiti Program

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI–(Marketwired – Nov. 20, 2013) – The Ministry of the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Rural Development for the Republic of Haiti publicized its cooperation…

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Plant to help Haiti’s peanut farmers opens

The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The nonprofit group of public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer and a health care company have teamed up to…

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Farmers to Feed the Hungry

By Mission of Hope, Haiti Published: Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 – 10:36 am PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 29, 2013 — Innovative Initiative Creates Sustainable Economy PORT-AU-PRINCE,…

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Today, in a first for Haiti, one group of farmers sponsored food aid for another group of farmers in need.

Jean-Robert Castin, representing farmers in Gonaives, giving rice, beans and cooking oil to Ametide Estimable, a farmer in Terre des Nègres. Today, in a first…

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Célébration de la journée mondiale de l’alimentation, Haïti mise sur la banane

Haïti s’apprête à célébrer avec le reste du monde mercredi 16 octobre prochain la journée mondiale de l’alimentation sur le thème : » Des systèmes…

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Why Is Haiti Hungry?

By Ayiti Kale Je , Haiti Grassroots Watch | Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Last May, the United Nations announced “6.7 million Haitians face food insecurity.” Aid…

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‘No Monsanto!’: World marches against GMO food

Get short URL People hold signs during one of many worldwide “March Against Monsanto” protests against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and agro-chemicals, in Los Angeles,…

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Un programme d’aide alimentaire pour Haïti, mais qui aide les fermiers des Etats-Unis

jeudi 10 octobre 2013 16 Enquête Article 1 d’une série de 6 P-au-P., 10 oct. 2013 [Ayiti Kale Je / AlterPresse] — Malgré les affirmations…

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USAID Funded Food Voucher Program Hurt Farmers, Favored U.S. Exports

A “test” food voucher program in the Grande Anse département (province) on Haiti’s southern peninsula promoted consumption of imported rather than local food for almost 18,000…

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Three years later and 2.2 million trees greener.

From February 2010 — when we launched the Timberland agroforestry and tree nursery program, to December 2012, we planted 2.2 million trees in Haiti’s Gonaives…

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Clinton, Four Seasons to Help Haiti Coffee Farms

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti October 9, 2013 (AP) A high-end Canadian hotel chain will soon be lending a hand to Haiti’s coffee farmers. The private foundation of…

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Online Game Plants Trees in Haiti

Today at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, we launched an exciting partnership: for every virtual tree planted as part of a new online…

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A Fruit and Vegetable Center Opens in Kenskoff, Haiti

1. President Martelly observes organic tomatoes being processed for packaging | 2. Minister Wilson Laleau, interim-Mayor Carlah Widjmy, President Michel Martelly and Pe Sicot |…

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L’ECOLE NATIONALE CHARLES LASSEGUE AUX CAYES

Le Directeur General du FAES a visité ce weekend le chantier de l’Ecole Nationale Charles Lassegue aux Cayes, dans le Sud du pays. Fondée en…

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The IDIAF and Taiwanese cooperation support Haitian agriculture

The Dominican Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (IDIAF) and the Taiwan Technical Mission in Haiti, have signed a tripartite agreement on technical cooperation, by which…

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Haiti Originale, LLC Launching Haitian Banana Program-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

CORAL GABLES, Fla., Aug. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Agri-Success, SA, a majority owned Haitian subsidiary of Florida-based Haiti Originale, LLC, is launching an intensive program to…

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Haiti trade mission a success

DELEGATES from the recent trade mission to Haiti have touted it a success and have promised to explore options for trade and investment in the…

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Aqua-based gardening method to help Haiti

TODD SUMLIN Out of the soil Instructor Gregg Alford works in the greenhouse at the Stonewall Jackson Training School in Concord, North Carolina, on August…

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Haiti police raid warehouses in plastics ban crackdown-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Rashmee Roshan Lall in Port-au-Prince theguardian.com, Thursday 15 August 2013 15.09 EDT A boy searches through plastic rubbish in a sewage canal for items to…