Topic: Artibonite Valley

Greening Haiti, Tree by Tree

As the focus of relief efforts after Haiti's devastating earthquake begins to shift from immediate rescue to long-term rebuilding, the use of agroforestry to boost Haiti's natural resources has taken on a new urgency. The Haiti Timber Re-Introduction Project aims ...
As the focus of relief efforts after Haiti's devastating earthquake begins to shift from immediate rescue to long-term rebuilding, the use of agroforestry to boost Haiti's natural resources has taken on a new urgency. The Haiti Timber Re-Introduction Project aims ...

Peligre Dam

Aspects of the topic P ligre Dam are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Soil erosion, induced by forest denudation in the Artibonite valley, has resulted in severe....

Artibonite River

It rises in the Cordillera Central (Cibao Mountains) of the Dominican Republic and flows southwest along the border with Haiti and then west and northwest into Haiti and through the fertile Artibonite Plain to enter the Gulf of La Gon ve after ...
Slow aid delivery, failing farms deepen hunger crisis in Haitian countrysideEvery inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin. The 18-month-old had been crying for so long in the hospital malnutrition ward that ...