Session Workbook of the International Urban Design Workshop, Région des Palmes, Haiti 2016: The Countryside, Like the City, Is Emancipatory (Preliminary Version)
- In the conference notes, Haitian land is described as split by inheritance and indivision, with the example of Grand Perrin, a commune of 18,000 ha divided into 100 colonial habitations and now split into 25,000 properties.
- The notes name a simplified land registry for the 75 percent of land with a document of legal value as one avenue pursued by the CIAT.
- The economist's talk is reported as stating that agriculture is now only 20 percent of GDP.
- The agronomist's talk is reported as giving 60 percent of maize output as consumed by producers and an average annual loss of 2 percent of GDP from weather damage between 1975 and 2012.
- The four teams are A 'Moun mon', B 'Sarasimbi', C 'Byen kare' (the Région des Palmes in 11 situations) and D 'pou tout moun'.
The workbook was produced by Les Ateliers at the request of the CIAT technical secretariat, with the support of the CMRP, and presents the projects drawn up in two weeks by 24 participants in four teams for the communes of Gressier, Léogâne, Grand-Goâve and Petit-Goâve. It opens with notes from the conferences held on February 27, 2016 at FOKAL in Port-au-Prince, on land tenure (Michèle Oriol of the CIAT), Haitian geography and markets (Jean-Marie Théodat), governance (Michèle Pierre-Louis), the economy (Kesner Pharel) and agriculture (Paul Duret of the CIAT). Each team then sets out its diagnosis and project in a section of the workbook: team A, 'Moun mon', puts the mornes at the center of the territory; team B, 'Sarasimbi', turns the region toward the sea; team C, 'Byen kare', describes the Région des Palmes in 11 situations; team D, 'pou tout moun', works on crossroads, roads and river deltas. The jury section and the annexes list the jury members and the participants with their disciplines and nationalities.
How to cite
Interministerial Committee for Territorial Planning (CIAT); Communauté des Municipalités de la Région des Palmes (CMRP); Les Ateliers, Session Workbook of the International Urban Design Workshop, Région des Palmes, Haiti 2016: The Countryside, Like the City, Is Emancipatory (Preliminary Version), https://ateliers.org/en/workshops/161/
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- Comité Interministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT)|Communauté des Municipalités de la Région des Palmes (CMRP)|Les Ateliers