Updated Diagnosis of the Coffee Value Chain in Haiti (KOREKAFE)
- The diagnostic updates knowledge of Haiti's coffee value chain to prepare a ten-year recovery plan.
- It reviews production, quality, commercialization, governance and financing.
- Haitian coffee production is characterized by creole garden polyculture, smallholder plots, Typica dominance, low chemical-input use and strong agroforestry potential.
- The sector had declined sharply in planted area, production and formal exports, while domestic consumption and informal Dominican trade remained important.
- Major production constraints include aging plantations and farmers, low yields, pests and diseases, inadequate parcel investment and quality problems from harvest through processing.
- The report argues for a relaunch plan combining production recovery, quality improvement, infrastructure investment, FONACAFE activation, commercial promotion, INCAH restructuring and better access to credit.
Produced by the Institut National du Café d'Haïti under KOREKAFE, its program for consolidating the competitiveness and sustainability of Haitian coffee cooperatives, and prepared by consultant Jean-Marc Vital of BUPRODER in January 2014. Its stated purpose is to provide the basis for a ten-year coffee recovery plan, and its executive summary is organized around the three levels where the chain was failing: production, quality, and commercialisation. It is the analytical predecessor to the national coffee recovery plan INCAH issued with MARNDR in May 2015, and read against the ANDAH characterization of 2007 it documents seven years of decline in the sector.
How to cite
Institut National du Café d'Haïti (INCAH); BUPRODER, 2014, Updated Diagnosis of the Coffee Value Chain in Haiti (KOREKAFE), https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/INCAH-Actualisation-Diagnostic-Filiere-Cafe-Janvier-2014-2.pdf