Pre-Crisis Market Mapping and Analysis Training and Market Assessment: Beans and Corn, Gressier, Haiti
- All Gressiens consume beans daily and maize several times per week, and many households trade or plant both.
- Only some 40 hectares of land in Gressier are irrigated, and the canals have not been cleaned in three years.
- The mayors in office were appointed by presidential decree in 2011-12 and were not popularly elected.
- Aid capture by farmer associations is described as a significant impediment to pre-crisis and crisis interventions.
- Free-ranging livestock raid gardens, and complaints focus on maize because livestock owners harvest it as fodder.
The report presents a Pre-Crisis Market Mapping and Analysis undertaken for GOAL Haiti on seasonal drought affecting maize and bean market systems in Gressier. It maps the pre-crisis market chains for both commodities and assesses the enabling environment, such as regulation and institutional support, and the supporting environment, such as water, fertilizer and credit. It finds that beans and maize are consumed and traded across livelihood groups, and that beans are among the main cash crops.
It records that only some 40 hectares of Gressier land are irrigated and that canals have not been cleaned in three years. It identifies aid capture by farmer associations and weak law enforcement, including free-ranging livestock raiding gardens, as obstacles to interventions.
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Socio-Dig, 2015, Pre-Crisis Market Mapping and Analysis Training and Market Assessment: Beans and Corn, Gressier, Haiti, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/sociodig-2015-gressier-beans-maize-market-assessment
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