Haiti
<p>Haiti is the poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean, and is a country highly exposed to natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, which have destroyed the country’s infrastructure.</p>
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Land Area
2,756,000 ha
GDP/Capita
2,870.2 USD
Total population
11,447,600
Urban population
55.3 %
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Agricultural land
66.8 %
Women owning land
3.2 %
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18 January 2019
The Caracol Industrial Park forced 4,000 Haitians from their land using earthquake reconstruction money. Nine years after the earthquake, farmers organised and negotiated a package of land and jobs.
The ninth anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010 holds new meaning for the nearly 4…
11 January 2019
WASHINGTON — Nine years after a devastating earthquake ravaged Haiti, a group of Haitian farmers won a settlement with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Haitian government after demonstrating they were adversely impacted by a bank-financed industrial park built on land seized in 2011.
“I…
By: Beverly Bell
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: Truth Out
Beverly Bell conducted the following interview with Iderle Brénus from which this text is drawn. Brénus is an economist with a master's from the University of Havana in small business and community development, and another master's…
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Registration for USAID’s Land Tenure and Property Rights Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is open through April 15th, 2018. Enroll today!
Rights to land and resources are at the center of our most pressing development issues: economic growth, food security, conflict, urbanization, gender equality…
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