Sustainable Agricultural Development
Approximately 10 million people live in Haiti with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty. Many are small farmers in rural areas beyond mountains shadowing Port Au Prince. Their success or failure determines whether they have enough to eat, are able to send their children to school, can afford to receive much needed medical care and can earn any money to save. They represent what used to be the cornerstones of Haiti's breadbasket.
Farm Haiti is dedicated to assisting these farmers by:
1.) Giving them access to technology to improve their yields/harvests
2.) Train them to establish self sufficiency through sustainable program development
3.) Serve as a resource center to address challenges as they arise from soil management to market
Join us in the mission. Farm Haiti NOW!
Farm Haiti is dedicated to assisting these farmers by:
1.) Giving them access to technology to improve their yields/harvests
2.) Train them to establish self sufficiency through sustainable program development
3.) Serve as a resource center to address challenges as they arise from soil management to market
Join us in the mission. Farm Haiti NOW!
Would you like to offset your carbon footprint...
while also supporting a sustainable agricultural project in Haiti?...The first step is to calculate your carbon. You may also offset the average American annual carbon footprint of 21 tons. The second step is to convert the number of pounds of carbon into tons by dividing by 2,000 and then multiply the result by $7. The third step is to donate that sum to Farm Haiti's reforestation program....
JUST A FEW QUICK FACTS ON IMPORTS INTO HAITI...
Led by rice and wheat, food items represented over one third of U.S. exports to Haiti in 2008. The top American food export was rice, which also had the highest annual percentage increase among the following top 10 U.S. export products.
Haiti is capable of growing the food its inhabitants need. Join our mission to help these farmers do just that. Farm Haiti NOW!
- Rice … US$199.3 million, up 79.3% from 2007 (21.1% of US exports to Haiti)
- Wheat… $64.6 million, up 68.6% (6.8%)
- Pharmaceutical preparations … $40.3 million, up 66.8% (4.3%)
- Meat and poultry … $33.8 million, up 26.4% (3.6%)
- Other foods… $26.8 million, up 51.9% (2.8%)
- Cotton fiber cloth… $21.9 million, up 25.3% (2.3%)
- Oilseeds and food oils… $19.79 million, up 102% (2.1%)
- Excavating machinery … $19.78 million, up 258.5% (2.1%)
- Trucks, buses and special purpose vehicles … $18.3 million, up 132.2% (1.9%)
- Unmanufactured agriculture industry products … $16 million, up 157.4% (1.7%)
Haiti is capable of growing the food its inhabitants need. Join our mission to help these farmers do just that. Farm Haiti NOW!
