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Integrated Community Development Project
Petit-Goave, Haiti
Project Initiation Mission
July 2008
Despite a relatively good spring harvest in June- July, which was comparable to last year's harvest at the same time, food security conditions are still precarious, in Haiti. Prices for staple food crops (rice, corn, beans, and sorghum) remain high. High world market prices for oil and grain are preventing improvements in food security. In spite of recent harvests, some 2.3 million Haitians, particularly residents of relatively arid areas of the Northwest and Northeast, and of poor urban areas, are currently categorized as moderately to acutely food insecure. The Southern peninsula (including the Nippes, Grand'Anse, Southern and Southeastern regions), which is especially vulnerable to hurricanes, has also been classified as food insecure. In the most likely scenario for the period from October through December, food security conditions will continue to deteriorate due, not only to the high price of staple food crops, and continuing civil unrest, some 2.5 million Haitians would be affected by food insecurity. OIDA support to Haitians to increase food security by establishing Chicken Farm in Petit-Goave, Haiti. When project is up and running it will produce 40,000 lbs of chicken meat each 45 day cycle. OIDA currently operating pilot project with 1000 chickens farm to learn more about the operation and lesson learned from the pilot  project will be implemented for mass scale production. "Haiti Vision" is a OIDA's local partner for this project.


 

Today that hunger and malnutrition are pervasive in Haiti, in both rural areas and urban centers. Insufficient access to food is a chronic problem and risks escalating into a humanitarian crisis.  The current situation results from structural weaknesses of the state and failure of the international community to support agricultural development in Haiti. The human right to food is enshrined in Haiti’s constitution, requiring the state to take concrete and immediate steps to resolve the problem. OIDA recognize the efforts of peasant farmers to develop coping strategies to deal with extreme poverty and welcome their efforts to participate and be equal actors in efforts to find solutions to the problems associated with lack of food. OIDA also recognize that some civil society organizations and financial partners have made valuable contributions towards food security in Haiti.  The realization of the human right to food is essential to democracy and development in Hait.