(2017-03) Fallen and Broken Trees: Hurricane Matthew, Impact and Responses

Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment (ORE), Comité Interministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT) • 2017 • 34 pages

Summary — ORE's assessment of what Hurricane Matthew did to the tree stock of southern Haiti and what responses follow, presented to the Table Verte of 30-31 March 2017. Its distinction between trees felled and trees broken is the operative one, because the two call for different interventions.

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Key Findings

The felled/broken distinction is operative: an uprooted tree is a total loss, a snapped but rooted tree may recover with pruning.
That distinction sets both the restoration cost and how fast tree-crop household income can return.
Tree crops are a large share of rural livelihood in southern Haiti, so the recovery timeline is an income question.

Full Description

The title carries the analysis. A tree uprooted by wind is a total loss to be replaced, and replacement means years before a fruit tree bears again; a tree snapped but still rooted may recover with pruning and care, in a season rather than a decade. Distinguishing the two across the affected area therefore determines both the cost of restoration and how quickly household income from tree crops can return, which in southern Haiti is a large share of rural livelihood. ORE, a long-established Haitian environmental rehabilitation organisation with deep experience in fruit-tree and agroforestry work in the south, presented this to the post-Matthew Table Verte alongside its companion paper on energy forests.

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Keywords

arbres, ouragan Matthew, impact, réponses, agroforesterie, arbres fruitiers, reconstitution, ORE, Table Verte, CIAT

Entities

ORE, CIAT, Table Verte du Grand Sud

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ARBRES TOMBÉS ET ARBRES CASSÉS OURAGAN MATTHEW, OCTOBRE 2017 IMPACT & RÉPONSES Enquête d’évaluation des dégâts Interventions post-Matthew Ne pas rater la campagne agricole en cours: • Déblayage des parcelles • Semences • Cash MERCI!