Developing High-Altitude Coffee Production in Haiti
- Treats coffee as a highland territorial-development crop linking altitude, temperature, fertility, organization and markets.
- Documents the long fall in coffee area and exports before proposing targeted recovery investments.
- Raises biochar and fertility restoration as part of the production-system question.
This deck treats coffee as a territorial development crop, not only as an export commodity. It starts from the long fall in coffee area and exports, then asks where arabica can still be grown, which producers should be prioritized, what arrangements and investments matter, and how fertility can be restored through systems such as biochar. The presentation is a useful post-Matthew recovery document because it looks past emergency replacement toward a production geography for the highlands, where altitude, temperature, soil fertility, organization and markets have to align.
How to cite
Government of Haiti; Interministerial Committee for Territorial Planning (CIAT), 2017, Developing High-Altitude Coffee Production in Haiti, http://ciat.gouv.ht/sites/default/files/articles/files/Production%20caf%C3%A9i%C3%A8re_31-03-2017.pptx