Stabilizing Haiti’s Rural Landscape
This hillside field, not far from our newest nursery in Piat, shows the vulnerability of Haiti’s traditional agriculture. Unstabilized and eroded, Haiti’s once fertile soils have become unproductive and unable to grow enough to meet the country’s food demand.
Once water sources are secured and tree nurseries started, through education we are teaching how to integrate a variety of trees in and around fields to stabilize soils. These strategies play into the larger agroforestry approach that manages and sustains humans, animals, trees, and crops on a single piece of land. Long-term, diversifying a farmers grown products will provide increased income and food security.
Project Components
+ animal feed production
+ livestock care
+ organic composting
+ fruit, nut, and lumber trees
+ biofuel jatropha growing
+ root, ground, & vine crops
+ rainwater harvesting
+ environmental education