Seed System Security Assessment Haiti: Recommendations for All Sites
- Records farmers sowing less seed overall, a decrease of 15.9 percent across all crops and regions.
- Finds the sharpest declines in seed use occurred in drought-affected zones rather than in the earthquake-affected ones, which separates the two shocks.
- Assesses seed security trends countrywide and over a longer horizon of five to ten years, not only the immediate post-earthquake position.
- The cross-site recommendations of the August 2010 Seed System Security Assessment, funded by USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
This short document carries the recommendations applying across all assessed sites from the Seed System Security Assessment conducted in Haiti and funded by USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, dated August 2010. SSSA methodology examines whether farmers can access seed of adequate quality through their normal channels rather than assuming a shortage and distributing seed in response, which makes an assessment carried out seven months after the January 2010 earthquake, in the middle of large-scale emergency seed distribution, particularly pointed. The corpus already holds later analyzes of Haitian seed systems in fragile-state framing; this is the field assessment behind that literature.
How to cite
United States Agency for International Development (USAID); Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), 2010, Seed System Security Assessment Haiti: Recommendations for All Sites, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SSSA-Haiti-2010-Recommandations-pour-tous-les-sites.pdf