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Haiti - Agriculture : FAO to the rescue of rural populations
11/01/2011 09:28:18 |
| More than half of Haiti's population [between five and six million people] resides in rural areas and about 80% of the rural population is engaged in agriculture and livestock... |
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Haiti - Agriculture : Cholera Threatens Food Security in Haiti
29/12/2010 08:59:24 |
| According to preliminary results of FAO, the cholera epidemic raised fears that a significant portion of the rice crop in the northwest of Haiti are lost, many farmers avoid harvest rice fearing that the rivers... |
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Haiti - Agriculture : The expectations of the coffee industry
21/12/2010 09:22:37 |
| It took 20 years of hard work to Haitian peasants to regain control of the coffee: this allows them now to establish with international clients (eg cooperative nOula) direct relationships, on equal terms... |
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Haiti - Agriculture : 45 Haitian technicians were trained in agroforestry
20/12/2010 08:55:36 |
| ...45 technicians-trainers in agroforestry Haitians have been trained in agricultural production in mountain areas so that they may be able to transfer this techniques to farmers...
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Haiti - Agriculture : Positive results for the program "WINNER"
18/10/2010 13:16:12 |
| The U.S. government is committed to providing concentrated and transformative support to the Haitian agricultural sector, given its importance to the Haitian economy, so that Haitian farmers become more productive and more... |
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Haiti - Agriculture : The agricultural credit always too expensive
08/10/2010 06:00:56 |
| Also, the lack of diversification and the rigidity of the eligibility and repayment of the loan are not adapted to the Haitian context dominated by small farmers... |
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Haiti - Agriculture : Oxfam accuses the International Trade Policy
06/10/2010 10:25:06 |
| The international community must abandon these conflicting trade and aid polices in order to support the growth of Haiti’s fragile rural economy, said the director of Oxfam Haiti. Citing the example of subsidized rice... |
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Haiti - Agriculture : Fishing for investors....
26/09/2010 15:06:00 |
| Fishing in Haiti present real assets, which should interest the national and foreign private investors. Apart, few ongoing projects financed by the Spanish Cooperation and the IDB, the fisheries and aquaculture... |
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Haiti - Agriculture : Eggs, poultry, livestock, production loss
23/09/2010 13:50:37 |
| Each year, Haiti imports more dairy products about 36 million eggs and 12.5 million chickens [90% cut in pieces]. Liberalization adopted since 1986 has hindered the development of... |
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Haiti - Agriculture : The exodus of the young of rural
22/09/2010 15:28:52 |
| Young people between 25 and 35 are no longer attracted to farm work they consider less rewarding. They prefer migrate to urban centers and then to Port-au-Prince. Some of them... |
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