Doing Business in Haiti's Food and Beverage Sector: Twelve Local Agribusinesses Share Their Perspectives
Summary: Interviews with twelve Haitian food and beverage businesses about what actually constrains them, conducted by Building Markets.
Key Findings
- Of the six firms that import, imported raw materials ranged from 5 to 30 percent of inputs, low against sectors such as construction materials.
- Reports suppliers 15 kilometers away losing a third of their crop for lack of transport.
- Around two thirds of Haitians depend on agriculture, the frame the interviews are set against.
Full Description
Interviews with twelve Haitian food and beverage businesses about what actually constrains them, conducted by Building Markets. Sector diagnostics of this kind normally aggregate; this one reports what individual firms said, including how much of their raw material they import and what transport losses cost them.
How to cite
Building Markets, 2011, Doing Business in Haiti's Food and Beverage Sector: Twelve Local Agribusinesses Share Their Perspectives, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/building-markets-2011-food-beverage-sector-agribusiness