Hurricane Matthew and the Cacao Value Chain in the Grand'Anse
- The final December 2016 report is a rapid damage-and-loss assessment of Hurricane Matthew's impact on the Grand'Anse cocoa value chain and a baseline for CRS's KABOS project.
- The work was completed in 40 days, from contract signature on 25 October to report submission on 3 December 2016.
- The assessment used a sample frame of 20 producers per commune, for 120 producers and 120 observed parcels across six communes.
- It found 36.3 percent of cocoa trees unrecoverable and 63.7 percent alive, including 40.7 percent in natural recovery and 23 percent requiring intervention.
- Producers reported that 97.5 percent wanted to rebuild cocoa plantations and 98 percent needed technical assistance.
- Cooperatives suffered severe damage to fermentation and storage facilities, with Abricots, Moron and Dame-Marie centers losing roofs and 30 percent of fermentation tanks crushed by wind.
At 235 pages this is the largest document in the collection, prepared for CRS-Haiti by agronomist Frisner Pierre with Nazaire St Fort and issued in final version in December 2016. It assesses the damage and losses Hurricane Matthew inflicted on the cacao chain in the Grand'Anse at the level of the producer and the cooperative, and sets out resilience and recovery strategy. Its foreword is candid about the compression involved: the whole exercise - developing collection tools, selecting and training enumerators, fieldwork, data entry, processing, analysis and drafting - was completed in 40 days, from contract signature on 25 October to submission on 3 December 2016. It serves simultaneously as the baseline study for the CRS-led KABOS project, and is the immediate post-Matthew counterpart to the CRS cacao project final report of 2018.
How to cite
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), 2016, Hurricane Matthew and the Cacao Value Chain in the Grand'Anse, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Post-Matthew-Cocoa-ReportFinal14122016.pdf