Environmental Vulnerability in Haiti: Findings and Recommendations
- Charcoal and fuelwood supply 75 percent of Haiti's energy consumption, which ties household energy directly to deforestation.
- Urban population growth of 3.63 percent a year against 0.92 percent rural concentrates environmental pressure on cities.
- Projected the population reaching 10 million by 2010 from 8.4 million on the 2003 census, a 19 percent rise in four years.
- Considers biofuel prospects as an alternative to charcoal, which is the report's main policy proposition.
A USAID assessment of April 2007 setting out Haiti's environmental vulnerability and what to do about it, covering geology, population pressure, energy use and land degradation. Its demographic and energy figures are the part most reused: it quantifies the share of national energy consumption met by charcoal and fuelwood, and the divergence between urban and rural population growth that concentrates pressure on the cities. Cited by several corpus documents and reachable through neither the government nor the multilateral archives.
How to cite
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2007, Environmental Vulnerability in Haiti: Findings and Recommendations, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/usaid-2007-environmental-vulnerability-haiti