Haiti’s Rural Recovery Bet: Can Cocoa and Breadfruit Turn Fragile Farms Into Stable Futures?
Agricultural development programmes in Haiti’s Grand’Anse region are using cocoa and breadfruit value chains to create jobs, strengthen food security and connect small-scale farmers to better markets. Backed by the ILO, WFP and international partners, the PROFIT and SAMS projects point to a wider development strategy: rebuilding rural livelihoods through local production, infrastructure, climate resilience and school feeding systems.
Haiti's rural economy cannot recover on emergency support alone. In Grand'Anse, the push to strengthen cocoa and breadfruit value chains is becoming a test of whether agriculture can do more than feed families, whether it can create jobs, rebuild loc... [6924 chars]
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