Haiti: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper; IMF Country Report 08/115 ...

PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND IMPROVED LAND TENURE
MANAGEMENT
Objectives
76 State interventions will be aimed at achieving three major objectives: (i) developing
environmentally friendly agriculture; (ii) facilitating access to land and combating the absentee
ownership phenomenon; and (iii) making working the land more secure and promoting
reparcelling. Priority will be accorded to two lines of action:
Strategic lines of action
o Improved land management and watershed protection;
o More secure land tenure, combating absentee ownership, and seeking to
identify types of farming that ensure sustainable development.
REVITALIZED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
Objectives
77 To revitalize agriculture production, the following two objectives will be pursued:
(1) recapitalization of farms; and (2) ensuring the broader availability of basic foodstuffs.
Strategic lines of action
o Stimulation of agricultural production
o Encouragement of livestock farming
o Poultry production
o Goat, sheep, and cattle production
MODERNIZATION OF RURAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Objectives
78 In order to modernize rural infrastructures, the State’s interventions will seek to ensure that three
important outcomes are guaranteed: i/ ensuring hydro-agricultural improvements; ii/ establishing
major water storage structures; iii/ improving rural roads and rural markets.
Strategic lines of action
o Rehabilitation and improvement of the major existing irrigation systems in order
to facilitate the maximum tapping of their potential;
o Construction of new systems in all areas where there is a need to do so;
o Improvement of the major water storage structures such as watershed ponds and
impluvia so as to mitigate the water shortage in some parts of the country and
stimulate market-garden and food-crop production in their proximity;
o Construction/rehabilitation of farm roads in production areas so as to facilitate
products reaching markets and reduce transport costs;
o Construction /improvement of rural markets.
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