Water and Soil Development in the La Quinte Watershed: Production Systems (Annex 2)
- The annex analyzes production systems in the La Quinte-Ennery watershed and proposes project interventions.
- The 2004 floods and Hurricane Jeanne revealed the fragility of land-use systems and the need for watershed protection.
- The study links upstream erosion, deforestation and steep slopes to downstream flood risks and damage to irrigation infrastructure.
- The project area includes irrigated small perimeters, humid mountains, dry mountains, humid plains and dry plains.
- Intervention proposals combine watershed management with support to small irrigated perimeters and improved cropping systems.
- Expected effects are assessed through assumptions, expected yields and crop budgets for key production systems.
This is Annex 2 of FAO project TCP/RLA/3012, the water and soil development project for the La Quinte watershed, which drains to Gonaives and takes in the commune of Ennery. The annex analyzes the production systems of the zone's different environments and advances intervention proposals, drawing on FAO material and on commune monographs recovered from town halls and communal agricultural bureaux. It arose from an FAO mission to the Artibonite department to establish the situation after a cyclone, and uses 2004 population figures alongside a discussion of the 18-19 September 2004 floods - those of Hurricane Jeanne, which destroyed Gonaives. It records the actors then working in the zone, including the FAO/Canada project at Marmelade, the Federation des Associations Caféières Natives, IICA and GTZ, and points to the Marmelade experience as a reference approach.
How to cite
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2005, Water and Soil Development in the La Quinte Watershed: Production Systems (Annex 2), https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Rapport-FAO-Ennery_Syst-Prod.doc