The Return of the Creole Pig
- 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.
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.
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Government of Haiti; Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR); Comité Interministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT), 2017, The Return of the Creole Pig, http://ciat.gouv.ht/sites/default/files/articles/files/Le%20retour%20du%20cochon%20creole_Carl%20Monde.pptx