(2017-03) The Return of the Creole Pig

Government of Haiti, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR), Comité Interministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) • 2017 • 7 pages

Summary — A short March 2017 Table Verte deck on the proposed return of the Creole pig in Haitian production systems. It emphasizes the animal's fit with mixed farming, household food residues and hostile rural conditions.

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Key Findings

Presents the Creole pig as adapted to mixed farming and low-input household production systems.
Highlights rusticity, low body development and low consumption as advantages under difficult rural conditions.
Places livestock recovery inside post-Matthew regional coordination.

Full Description

This deck is small, but it records a recurring Haitian agricultural policy theme inside the post-Matthew coordination discussion. The Creole pig is presented through production-system characteristics: mixed cropping and livestock, alternating access to mangoes, kitchen waste and breadfruit, and periodic scarcity of human food. Its value is the fit between animal traits and poor rural conditions: rusticity, low body development and low consumption. The implicit argument is that recovery livestock should be adapted to the household systems that will keep it alive.

Topics

Geography

Keywords

cochon créole, élevage, systèmes de production, polyculture, résilience rurale, post-Matthew, Table Verte, MARNDR, CIAT

Entities

MARNDR, CIAT, Carl Monde

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Le retour du cochon créole Caracteristiques des systemes de production • Polyculture/elevage avec predominance des arbres fruitiers • Disponibilite alternee d aliments varies: mangues, dechets de cuisine, avocats, veritable, ets • Durdisponibilite periodique d”alimentpour la consummation humaine Caracteristiques du cochon creole • Rusticite, i.e. capacite a vivre dans un environnement hostile non controle sur le plan sanitaire, alimentaire, etcc • Faible developpement corporel • Faible niveau de consommation Caracteristiques de l”environnement (economique et infrastructurel) • Faible capacite d”investissement et quasi absence de sources de financement, faible circulation monetaire • Quasi absence des infrastructures de base: routes, refrigeration, etc Globalement • Systeme equilibre ou le cochon jouait un double role d”epargne/accumulation et de sources de revenus • PESTE PORCINE AFRICAINE======= RUPTURE D”EQUILIBRE LES CHANGEMENTS SURVENUS • AUTRES SOURCES DE REVENUS • Strategies d”accumulation et d”epargne differentes • Penetration plus forte de la microfinance • Nouvelle dynamique demographique: • AVANT 90% rural: zone de production et zone de consummation rapprochees • ACTUEL 45% zone de production et zone de consummation differentes • Differentiel de prix des produits important entre rural et urbain • Reduction de la disponibilite des produits sur place • Paysage de plus en plus ouverts • Legeres ameliorations de la disponibilite en infrastructures Comment relancer la production porcine?