haitian agriculture

How does Haiti Agriculture effect

the availability of food Team B

Haitian Agriculture• The food crisis in Haiti

can be directly linked to the Haitian Agricultural system.

• Haiti’s high food prices are caused by a global rise in food prices and by Haiti’s heavy reliance on imported foods

• We will discuss the cost, needs, distribution as well as crops.

Crops

• Produces and exports coffee, cocoa, meat sugar

• Coffee and Sugar are the main crops

• Imports Rice from U.S.• Food crops and cash

crops• Crops cultivated are red

beans, black beans, mangoes, and etc…

Needs

• Three quarter of the Haitian population are at the risk of starvation

• The demise of the agricultural system has led to the need for food and financial assistance to try to help revive the Haitian economy.

• Needs seeds, fertilizers, farming equipments and irrigation system upgrade.

Distribution

• The distribution of crops by Haiti has diminished considerably with the demise of the farming system.

• Decrease in exports & increase in imports.

• Imports about 360,000 metric tons of rice annually in to Haiti.

• Haiti’s sugar exports dropped from 19,200 tons in 1980 to 6,500 tons in 1987.

Cost

• Importing of rice from the United States is currently costing Haiti around $270 million annually.

• In Haiti, three-quarters of the population live on $2.00 a day.

• The combined hikes in the cost of food, and the low wages and high gas prices have combined to decimate the economy as well as families .

• The cost of food in Haiti has risen by more than 50 percent within the last year.

References• Tim Shenk (2008, April). MCC staffer victim of carjacking during

Haitian food unrest. Canadian Mennonite, 12(9), 23. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from CBCA Complete database. (Document ID: 1480056331).

• Jacqueline Charles from Miami Herald (2008, April 21) Crop fields hold hope in Haiti. Retrieved June 2, 2008 fromwww.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/503497.html

• Miami Herald (2008, April 28) Reviving Haiti's agriculture is a long-term effort. Retrieved June 2, 2008 from www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/OPINION/804280321

• Lendman, S., Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (2008, April 21) Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World. (Chicago) http//www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8712

• Starthrower Foundation, (Spring-Summer 2008) (Canada) http//www.starthrowerfoundation.org/currentcampaigns.html

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