Rebuilding Livelihoods of Farmers in Haiti

January 26, 2010 |

You Can Help Rebuild Haiti’s Farms — Here’s how:

$15 — will assist a team of local and inter­na­tional experts in assess­ing the impact of the recent earth­quake on the Vetiver sec­tor. $50 — will pro­vide tech­ni­cal assis­tance to the Vetiver sec­tor to develop and sus­tain income gen­er­at­ing activ­i­ties that pro­vide com­pli­men­tary soil ero­sion con­trol and flood mit­i­ga­tion ben­e­fits. $100 — will help local com­mu­ni­ties in the South of Haiti estab­lish rela­tion­ships to sell their prod­ucts to peo­ple and busi­nesses out­side of their com­mu­nity and out­side of Haiti.

More Infor­ma­tion About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

As Haiti is already highly dev­as­tated from defor­esta­tion, the adop­tion of sus­tain­able prac­tices in Vetiver grow­ing areas pro­vides a sym­bol of hope, envi­ron­men­tal secu­rity, and sus­tain­abil­ity. Vetiver oil, a pri­mary ingre­di­ent in many cos­metic and beauty prod­ucts, is one of Haiti’s pri­mary exports. The Vetiver plant is grown through­out the south of Haiti and the liveli­hoods hun­dreds of thou­sands of fam­i­lies are con­nected to the grow­ing, har­vest­ing, and dis­til­la­tion of Vetiver.

Activ­i­ties

EVI aims to sup­port an imme­di­ate assess­ment of impacts to eco­nomic liveli­hoods in the next three to four weeks and a follow-up mis­sion to pro­vide needed tech­ni­cal assis­tance to rebuild the Vetiver sec­tor, which so many liveli­hoods depend on.

Fund­ing Information

Total Fund­ing Goal: $96,550

Addi­tional Documentation

This project has pro­vided addi­tional doc­u­men­ta­tion in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

• EcoVen­tures Inter­na­tional Exter­nal Web­site (http://www.eco-ventures.org)
• The Vetiver Net­work Inter­na­tional (http://www.vetiver.org/)
• Orga­ni­za­tion for the Reha­bil­i­ta­tion of the Envir. (http://www.oreworld.org/)

Why this Project is Important

Poten­tial Long Term Impact

Dona­tions pro­vide imme­di­ate relief efforts to the fam­i­lies and busi­nesses that rely on the Vetiver sec­tor, as well as medium and long term assis­tance to sup­port the revi­tal­iza­tion and long-term via­bil­ity and sus­tain­abil­ity of eco­nomic activities.

Project Mes­sage

We will cre­ate bet­ter tomor­rows by build­ing Haiti back bet­ter: with more man­u­fac­tur­ing and less defor­esta­tion; with more sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture and clean energy.
– Bill Clin­ton, U.N. Spe­cial Envoy to Haiti

Who is Run­ning This Project

Con­tact

Lau­ren Frederic

1519 Con­necti­cut Ave NW
Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20036
United States
202–667-0802
Email: lauren@eco-ventures.org

Project Spon­sor

EcoVen­tures International

Orga­ni­za­tion

EcoVen­tures Inter­na­tional
1519 Con­necti­cut Avenue, NW Suite 301
Wash­ing­ton, DC 20036
United States
+1 202 667 0802
http://www.eco-ventures.org

Learn more about EcoVen­tures Inter­na­tional and the project team.

EcoVen­tures International’s Cur­rent Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Coun­try

This project is located in Haiti and can also be found under Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment.

For more infor­ma­tion about Haiti, read the Human Devel­op­ment Report on Haiti or the Wikipedia entry for Haiti.

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3 Responses to “Rebuilding Livelihoods of Farmers in Haiti”

1. Elise Pinners says:

   January 27, 2010 at 7:52 am

   The team of experts to assess the Vetiver sec­tor — what Vetiver sec­tor is referred to? Is it the sec­tor pro­duc­ing Vetiver (roots) for hand­i­craft, or is it related to water man­age­ment? Where will the experts be from?

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2. scott says:

   January 27, 2010 at 11:10 am

   Elise,

   We’ve included some more infor­ma­tion about the project above. The “Addi­tional Doc­u­men­ta­tion” resources may answer some of your ques­tions. For more infor­ma­tion try going to the source arti­cle at http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/rebuilding-livelihoods-of-farmers-in-haiti/

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3. Harry Manville says:

   February 3, 2010 at 9:53 am

   Besides donat­ing my own money to Haiti, I will con­tinue to pray for them. Lift­ing every­thing up to Heaven for them.

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