Study of Agricultural Value Chains in Southern Haiti: Mango, Cashew, Honey, Castor and Cacao
- The March 2015 study was conducted under the ACSSD-GE green-economy pilot supported by the European Commission and led in Haiti by UNEP.
- It reviews five agricultural chains in the South: mango, honey, cashew, castor and cacao.
- The study says all five chains are prioritized by the Haitian state in agricultural programs, but coordination among field actors is weak.
- It identifies favorable coastal and semi-arid ecosystems from Aquin to Tiburon for cashew, castor and honey, and more humid areas such as Saint-Louis, Maniche, Chantal, Camp-Perrin, Arniquet, Torbeck and Les Cayes for cacao, castor and honey.
- Haiti covers only 46 percent of its food needs, agriculture's GDP contribution fell from 32 percent in the early 1980s to 25 percent in 2014, and 88 percent of rural households live below the poverty line.
- The report proposes adaptable project sheets for 100 honey families, 1,500 cacao families and 100 castor families.
- Proposed budgets are 800,000 US dollars for honey, 3.5 million US dollars for cacao and 300,000 US dollars for castor.
Prepared by Jean Chesnel Jean et Associés for the UN Environment Programme and dated March 2015, this study covers five agricultural value chains in southern Haiti: mango, cashew, honey, castor and cacao. It begins with a summary for decision-makers, then frames Haiti as a complex agricultural environment and situates the chains in relation to MARNDR, before scoping each of the five. A profile of the chains in the south follows, treating the environmental, socio-economic and institutional problems together rather than separately, and then the current situation of each chain under study. Grouping castor and honey with the better-documented mango and cacao chains is what distinguishes it: the corpus holds far more on the latter two.
How to cite
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Jean Chesnel Jean et Associés, 2015, Study of Agricultural Value Chains in Southern Haiti: Mango, Cashew, Honey, Castor and Cacao, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Cacao-Chesnel-Rapport_Fina__Etude-des-filieres_PNUEVFinale.docx