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Haiti - Humanitarian : France buys more than 1,000 tons of rice from Haiti 14/07/2011 12:57:53
In Haiti, nearly three million people depend every day of food aid programs to feed. But paradoxically, this support composed essentially of agricultural surplus imported from the North, is a double-edged sword : it is essential to the survival of almost 30% of people in this country, it also deprives the Haitian peasants of a large part of their customers. These local farmers are faced with a food assistance generously offered by the North countries and commercial imports at very low cost (subsidized by the producing countries and not taxed by Haiti) carried out by large traders. They are unable to match these prices and these farmers abandon their farms to join the ranks of people who depend on food aid. Is to break this "vicious circle" that France devotes since 2005, an increasing proportion of its credits of food aid in Haiti for the purchase of local products. Rather than spending all of these resources for the importation of grain coming from its own territory, the French cooperation uses a part to help the peasant associations to increase their production, then, it bought the production at a price studied to help these farmers to live of their work and to prepare the next harvest, but low enough to not cause an increase in the price of these food goods on local markets. To do this, France is helping these farmers to organize themselves into cooperatives and chambers, which allows them to better negotiate with market intermediaries and to make joint investments (irrigation schemes, construction of warehouses and glaze drying, purchase of motorized mills, etc...). In late January, France had already released two million euros for the same program. Late June, it decided to complete the first budget by an additional allocation of 1.3 million euros for the purchase of approximately 1.085 tons of rice in Haiti, directly to the WFP, covering 6% of its annual requirements (ie 20.000 tonnes of cereals). In a concern for transparency, the France details the use of the donation in the following manner:
Rice bought with this French aid will be distributed via:
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