2. Plan of Presentation
• Overview of Haiti
• Analysis of the situation in development
perspective
• Two different projects to make things happen:
o Project tractors
o PASAC Project
• Conclusion
3. Overview of Haiti
• Low investment in the agricultural sector, most important
sector in terms of employment
• Available agricultural land suited to mechanized cultivation is
largely limited to large land owners and the government
• Agricultural techniques based on Lowland agriculture and not
agriculture mountain despite of more than 75% of land in
slope and mountain
• Family agriculture
• Young population, a lot of needs…
4. Analysis of the situation in
development perspective
• 21st century: century of technology; century of
research development; century of
globalization…
• Hunger has become a global challenge
6. Basic elements for this project
• Rapidity of the response (On Time Response
activity)
• Addressing key structural problems even in
urgent situation:
o Questioning the problem of agricultural
mechanization
o Valuing wasteland (like savane diane, 20,000
ha)
7. Objectives
Improve and increase agricultural production with better
technology
Job Creation for residents and displaced earthquake
Knowledge transfer in farm machinery from Dominican
Republic to Haiti
8. Results obtained
Culture Yield before the Yield after the
project Kg /ha project Kg /ha
Sorghum 750 2,000
Maize 1,000 2,500
Black Bean 550 1,300
Cassava 10,000 20,000
Sweet potato 5,000 12,000
• 2,000 farmers helped in 3 departments to prepare on time
5,280 has; more than 125 people trained in driving and
maintaining a tractor; 4,900 people with small job; draft
available on the reform of the agricultural mechanization
9. Haiti post earthquake support program
for Food and employment generation in
affected areas (PASAC Project)
10.
11. Objectives
• Improve agricultural production through
infrastructure rehabilitation, agricultural
inputs and establishment of community
gardens
• Job creation
• Strengthening human/social capital and
entrepreneurship
12. Basic elements for this project
• Capacity building: Empower institutions involved in the
communities (local cooperative credit to pay the workers; 2
local institutions to coordinate activities; irrigator’s
associations receive support to rehabilitate the systems)
• Medium and long term action: train local group of farmers to
produce seeds of black beans; establishment of 26 fruit
orchards and about 500 small gardens for nutrition purpose
• Development of synergy in a consortium with clearly defined
roles
13. Results obtained
• Capacity of the households to support the increase of about 20% of
the usual size due to the Increased production through:
o 9,000 has of land rehabilitated in watersheds over the irrigated
areas
o 13 irrigated systems rehabilitated for the development of 3,000 ha
o Additional income for 20,000 people with small jobs
• Better organization of the commercialization with 22,5 Km of rural
road rehabilitated ; open market producers (vegetable production)
• New trades are introduced like grafters, machinery operators
• New avenues of development are explored
• 10 micro enterprises got finance to restart their business
14. CONCLUSION: Let us address the
situation differently
• Methodology based on a medium or a long
term perspective gives better results.
• In protracted crisis, who survives
better?
15. The answer is: informal sector
We Need:
o To make a choice for conceptual break: formalize
the economy under the old system or rethink the
economy, based on the adapted and highly survival
system in the informal sector?
o To rethink communication in development project:
the most important is not what you say but what the
others understand
o To develop the mentality of using resources available
and make prevention (costs less)