Can you describe exactly how Lambi is trying to help Haitian farmers become self-sufficient?
The Lambi Fund of Haiti only funds local organizations to help Haitian farmers become self-sufficient. We increase their capacity to manage projects by building and strengthening farmers’ leadership skills. Lambi Fund’s strategy is also based heavily on the bottom-up approach, which relies primarily on peasant input in project development and implementation. More information about our projects and how we fund them is available at www.lambifund.org. The food riots in Haiti in 2008 showed how susceptible the country is to food price fluctuations on the international markets. Many critics see that susceptibility as a result of neoliberal “reforms” pushed by the U.S. beginning in the 1980s, which damaged Haiti’s rural economy by flooding the country with cheap subsidized rice from the north. Given those trade-level issues, do you think macro-level policy changes will have to be paired with better micro-level development practices for Haitian poverty to be significantly curtailed? Unfortuna
