Property Rights and Resource Governance Country Profile: Haiti
Summary: This USAID country profile summarizes Haiti’s property-rights, land-tenure and natural-resource governance constraints in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake. It links unclear land rights to reconstruction, rural livelihoods and environmental degradation.
Key Findings
- Unclear and undocumented land rights impeded reconstruction after the January 2010 earthquake.
- Customary rural tenure provides some security but may be stressed by displacement and land demand.
- Weak governance, land scarcity and poor farming practices contribute to degradation.
- Land-tenure assessments were identified as an urgent basis for policy and planning.
Full Description
The profile provides a compact baseline for post-earthquake land policy. It describes poverty, weak state capacity, rural customary tenure, urban reconstruction barriers, document loss, migration pressure and resource degradation, and it frames land tenure assessment as an urgent intervention need.
How to cite
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2010, Property Rights and Resource Governance Country Profile: Haiti, https://landwise-production.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/03/USAID_Land-Tenure-Haiti-Profile-2010.pdf