Rebuilding livelihoods after the EarthquakeUruguay, October 30, 2012

Maude Rachelle Pierre Louis, Haiti

Plan of Presentation

• Overview of Haiti• Analysis of the situation in development

perspective• Two different projects to make things happen:o Project tractorso PASAC Project• Conclusion

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…

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

Post earthquake project:Project tractors: Soil preparation and training in

farm machinery

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)

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

Results obtained

• 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

Culture Yield before the project Kg /ha

Yield after the 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

Haiti post earthquake support program for Food and employment generation in

affected areas (PASAC Project)

Objectives

• Improve agricultural production through infrastructure rehabilitation, agricultural inputs and establishment of community gardens

• Job creation• Strengthening human/social capital and

entrepreneurship

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

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

areaso 13 irrigated systems rehabilitated for the development of 3,000 hao 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

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?

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)

Thank YouGraciasMerci