Project profile — Creole Garden Revalorisation

• Haiti (100.00%)

• Agricultural development:
Agricultural development (31120) (15.00%)
Agricultural land resources (31130) (15.00%)
Industrial crops/export crops (31162) (30.00%)
Agricultural education/training (31181) (10.00%)
• Rural development:
Rural development (43040) (20.00%)
Disaster Risk Reduction (43060) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (significant objective)
• Climate Change Adaptation (principal objective)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (significant objective)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project aims to develop the agroforestry systems based on coffee and cocoa in the South Department of Haiti. This department is particularly vulnerable to climate change, thus aggravating environmental degradation and directly impacting agricultural activities and the entire value chain. In order to ensure the sustainability of the agroforestry systems ("creole gardens"), the project also seeks to improve the capacity of producers to adapt to climate change; encourage the creation of skills on agroforestry adaptation to climate change through the adequacy of training curricula; and strengthen the governance capacities of local and departmental authorities on adaptation to climate change. Project activities include: (1) installation and innovative and sustainable management of 250 hectares of new plantations by more than 800 families under the leadership of youth and women; (2) strengthening the economic empowerment and social recognition of women involved in these agroforestry sectors by promoting their access to strategic roles and functions; and (3) improving the capacity of value chain actors in organizational management, commercialization, and marketing to ensure better access to niche markets by improving the quality of the commodities produced.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) the added value of the targeted agri-food chains is increased, particularly for the benefit of women and youth in the targeted regions, while respecting the environment; and (2) the agri-food chains targeted by the project are better adapted to climate change.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) supported more than 4,000 people to adapt to climate change, exceeding the target of 3,000 people; (2) allowed 1 communal body out of the 2 planned to create at least 3 initiatives to improve adaptation to climate change in connection with the agri-food value chains; (3) allowed 35 women to access to decision-making positions related to entrepreneurial dynamics and governance, exceeding the target of 30 women; (4) allowed 1 coffee cooperative to increase its profitability by 20%; (5) allowed 1 of the 2 targeted communal bodies to have a development plan adapted to climate change in connection with the agri-food value chains. Also restored plot density to expand the 3 cooperatives in Grand’Anse which are under contract to grow 18,000 cacao trees and 6,000 shade trees and produce compost; (6) established the 372 hectares planned; and (7) provided 5 training modules for over 2,000 growers as their plots evolved. In total, the project distributed around 110,000 fruit and forest trees.

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