Prioritisation of Agricultural Value Chains for the SYFAAH Financing System
- The study prioritizes agricultural and food value chains for the SYFAAH agricultural financing and insurance system.
- It frames agricultural finance and insurance as support measures for small farms, rural income, food security and poverty reduction.
- The methodology combined document review, interviews with resource persons, characterization of value chains and weighted comparison across seven criteria.
- Haiti's agricultural sector is described as central to rural livelihoods but constrained by poverty, natural hazards, low investment and weak financial and insurance systems.
- Eleven value chains were identified and characterized before ranking.
- The five priority value chains selected for SYFAAH were mango, sugar cane, vegetables, rice and poultry, with sweet potato and banana identified as optional chains for a project extension.
Prepared for IICA by Jules Stuart Pierre, PhD, CFA, and dated 23 August 2011, this is the upstream study in the SYFAAH sequence: it decides which agricultural and food value chains the financing and insurance project would lend into, and the individual chain diagnostics on rice, banana and mango follow from its conclusions. It works through a documentary phase, interviews with resource persons, and analysis and synthesis, then identifies and characterizes the chains examined before applying explicit prioritization criteria. For anyone tracing why Haitian agricultural credit went where it did in the 2010s, this is the document that made the selection.
How to cite
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA); SYFAAH, 2011, Prioritisation of Agricultural Value Chains for the SYFAAH Financing System, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SYFAAH-Priorisation-des-Filieres-Agricoles-SYFAAH-Rapport-Final-23-aout-2011.pdf