Haiti Cacao Impact Evaluation Baseline
- The producer survey covered 1,147 cooperative members: 580 in the Grand'Anse and 567 in the North.
- 79 percent of respondent households reported food scarcity in the previous 12 months.
- Only 12 percent in both regions said cacao provided more than half of their income.
- 35 percent of Grand'Anse respondents and 26 percent in the North said they earned back less than they had invested in cacao over the past year.
- Average yearly cacao income was US$134.04 in the Grand'Anse and US$116.72 in the North.
- Citing a 2005 IDB study, the report describes two exporters setting prices, with 1,250 intermediaries and 250 licensed speculators between them and about 20,000 smallholders.
Baseline for the project "Creating Alliances In Cocoa For Improved Access And Organization In Haiti," commissioned by Catholic Relief Services with partners Lutheran World Services and FECCANO and financed by the IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund. The team led by Timothy Schwartz held 12 focus groups and ran two surveys: one of cooperative directors and one of members. The member sample covered 580 producers in five Grand'Anse cooperatives (25 percent of 2,214 members) and 567 in seven North cooperatives (22 percent of 2,478 members). Fieldwork ran from October 30 to December 18, 2014. Chapters cover cooperative record keeping, nurseries, sales and the ristoun (second payment), then household demography, gender, income, food security, land, tree care, production, sales channels and loans, and end with proposed end-line indicators. Annexes carry the questionnaires in English and Kreyòl and focus group transcripts and translations.
How to cite
Catholic Relief Services (CRS); Socio-Dig, 2014, Haiti Cacao Impact Evaluation Baseline, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/crs-2014-haiti-cacao-impact-evaluation-baseline