Agriculture

Haiti Liberté, 18 janvier 2012

" L´exploitation étrangère est la cause des difficultés de Haïti ". Par Luciana Taddeo* "Vous êtes vraiment blancs ?", se demandaient les Haïtiens, rassemblés en petits groupes pour les voir travailler et se salir les mains de terre. Les voir se saisir de la houe, se pencher sur la terre et travailler dans les plantations de la zone rurale, transporter des bottes de paille ou tirer de l´eau d´un puits étonnaient les noirs qui s´arrêtaient pour contempler la scène, absorbés, immobiles durant 20, 30 minutes.

By Steven Stoll, published in Harper's Magazine, April 2010
(available online to subscribers only)

By LAURENT DUBOIS and DEBORAH JENSON

Op-ed, New York Times, January 8, 2012
HAITI wasn’t always the “poorest nation in the Western hemisphere,” though it’s almost impossible to read about the country today without coming across that phrase. In the two years since the earthquake that devastated it, Haiti has experienced political conflict and its first ever cholera epidemic; hundreds of thousands of the displaced are still living in makeshift tents strewn like dusty flags by the sides of highways. It is easy to forget that, for most of the 19th century, Haiti was a site of agricultural innovation, productivity and economic success.