It has been more than 4 years since I started working with the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA), a Haitian NGO that works to improve the lives of Haitian smallholder farmers while at the same time reforesting the country. My first work for the SFA was the Haiti...
Growing Cotton in a Fair, Sustainable Way: A Few Thoughts on the Haiti Cotton Project Some people, when they first hear about our organic cotton project in Haiti, ask me: what are you doing to make sure the farmers are treated well? Are they getting a fair wage? Some...
Two Down, And Here is the Third: Puerto Rico Cotton Study Announced! Some people use the end of the year to look back and share some of their main achievements of the year. I figured I’d wait for a few days and start the new year with a nice announcement: the Puerto...
Timberland Receives Best Economic Empowerment Program Award for Haiti Cotton Project Timberland’s work with us to reintroduce cotton farming to Haiti was recently honored with the US Chamber of Commerce Citizenship Award for the Best Economic Empowerment...
First Sustainable Cotton in Haiti Starting to Flower About three months ago, with the support of Timberland, we started field trials to test possible varieties of cotton for sustainable cotton production in Haiti. Three months in, our first varieties are starting to...
Haiti Cotton Project Launched: Reintroducing Sustainable Cotton to Haiti It’s been in the making for a while, but this week saw the official start of the Haiti Cotton Project, a major project that reintroduces sustainable cotton to Haiti. The launch of the...
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