Nutrition and Food Security

Research IdeasPort-au-Prince

May 2016

Working with 30-50 economists including Nobel Laureates, 100+ sector experts, government, donor organizations, civil society, development agencies, businesses, youth, across rural and urban areas to identify, analyze and prioritize interventions that will deliver greater benefit per gourde spent, helping move Haiti towards a more prosperous long term future.

Copenhagen Consensus Center organized roundtable discussions

with an aim to figure out smarter solutions to the most problematic

issues facing Haiti.

These roundtables are one of several sources

for research ideas.

Research Ideas

Interventions;(1 of 2)

• Reduce the unemployment rate by investing in the protection and promotion of the following sectors: cocoa, coffee and pistachio.

• Invest in existing agricultural production chains (eg. R&D for rice varieties better adapted to the climate of Haiti).

• Establish irrigation systems and invest in regular maintenance of existing systems.

• Create agro-technical training programs in the rural areas.

• Increase the production of coffee and cocoa in the country.

Interventions; (2 of 2)

• Exploit potential reserves of cereals, fruits and vegetables, tubers and fish.

• Strengthening Fisheries (investment in fishing boats, modern equipment).

• Promote Mango peels as an antioxidant.

Access; (1 of 1)

• Build public markets around the country that meet international standards.

• Make international markets accessible to farmers.• Build infrastructure (bridges and roads) to improve

access to local and international markets.• Export tubers (roots: potatoes, yams, turnips, etc) to

Guadeloupe and Martinique.• Take advantage of captive markets such as schools,

hospitals, police stations etc. to sell local products; to promote local production.

Post-Harvest; (1 of 1)

• Create units / storage and processing centers.• Create conservation centers for seafood.• Facilitate direct investment in the agro-processing

sector.• Organize the markets. • Strengthen farmers' business management capacity so

that they can improve their monitoring and assess their losses and / or profits.

Environment; (1 of 1)

• Watershed management.• Create special zones for Agro-forestry.• Improve soil conservation.• Increase the area of arable land by relocating people

living in the flat lands.• Harness renewable energy sources.• Develop the agro-forestry value chain to re-forest and

commercialize the sector.

Nutrition; (1 of 2)

• Improving access to portable water.• Create nutrition centers.• Expand school canteens in all schools.• Reduce anemia in children under 2 years by increasing

consumption of products rich in iron.• Offer iron supplementation.• Reduce chronic malnutrition by increasing the rate of

vaccination against infectious diseases.• Promote urban agriculture.• Facilitate women's access to economic resources,

especially single-parent households.

Nutrition; (2 of 2)

• Reduce chronic under-nutrition and obesity.• Introduce a nutrition training program in schools to

popularize the essential elements of "eating well".• The promotion of breastfeeding for six months.

Legal framework / Public Policy; (1 of 2)

• Census and identification of people in rural areas.• Develop and enact a basic law to CNSA.• Increase girls retention rate in schools.• Create a space for coordination of stakeholders. • Make it functional and enhance ODVA in the mountains

and seas.• A campaign to increase fish consumption in Haiti to

boost the fisheries sector and improve nutrition.• Reduce air pollution to make urban agriculture more

viable.

Legal framework / Public Policy; (2 of 2)

• Introduce a code of Haitian food and laws in different areas.

• Ratify the related conventions and treaties. • Strengthen the capacity of line ministries to better

regulate trade and protect local production.• Strengthen multi-sectoral governance with regard to

food security: We need a comprehensive policy that connects the environmental issue with the nutritional issue, income and also to the question of use of land.

• Establish an organic waste management system.

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