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Category Archives: Promoting sustainability: civil society, women, and trees
Another Day, Another Step
Our post hurricane integrated governance and food security program in southern Haiti distributes high market value fruit trees to women farmers through their local community organizations. A successful pilot funded last December and January by concerned friends gave us some … Continue reading
A Breadfruit for Data Partnership
#caribbinstitute (The Caribbean Institute, TCI) has partnered with @TreesThatFeed (the Trees That Feed Foundation, TTFF) to strengthen our support of women in southern Haiti who are recovering from the devastation wreaked by hurricane Matthew. You can call it the Breadfruit … Continue reading
A First Hand Account of a Fruit Tree Distribution in the Grand Anse
What could I expect? Bert Laurent, a friend and Executive Chairman at The Caribbean Institute had asked me to accompany a delivery of fruit tree seedlings by truck from TCI’s nursery near Port au Prince, over sometimes challenging, rocky, mountain … Continue reading
Follow a Fruit Tree Distribution in Haiti in Real Time (Via Live Twitter!)
Follow us “live” on twitter (@caribbinstitute) as Board Member Henry Hogarth brings several hundred fruit tree seedlings to women gardeners in the Grande Anse, a region of southern Haiti that was severely impacted by Hurricane Matthew! The fruit trees are being delivered to one of … Continue reading
Distribution Phase Begins for TCI’s Christmas Fruit Tree Initiative
The Caribbean Institute’s distribution of fruit trees to Haitian farmers and gardeners for Christmas begins! Continue reading
Giving Fruit Trees for Christmas!
An urgent appeal to our readers for donations: Please help us provide fruit trees to farmers in the hurricane-impacted area of Haiti. Click here to make a gift! Until just a few weeks ago Haiti’s southern peninsula used to be the country’s breadbasket. … Continue reading
Our Response to Hurricane Matthew
On October 4 and 5 in southern Haiti, Hurricane Matthew caused over a thousand deaths and immense destruction of houses, schools, roads, bridges and other infrastructure. In addition, farms, trees and animals were lost. Agricultural production and food security are … Continue reading
How Haiti Should Respond to Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew, which killed more than 1,300 people, destroyed 80% of the city of Jeremie and left over 35,000 people homeless, is the 14th hurricane since 2004 to impact Haiti, and is the 10th since 2004 to cause loss of … Continue reading
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