Developing High-Altitude Coffee Production in Haiti

Developing High-Altitude Coffee Production in Haiti

Summary: Paul Duret's March 2017 Table Verte presentation on high-altitude coffee development in Haiti. It reviews area, exports, cup tests, prices, agroecological zoning, constraints, target producers, priority investments, organization and profitability.
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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.

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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