Harvesting Haiti

Author : Myriam J. A. Chancy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781477327814

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Harvesting Haiti by Myriam J. A. Chancy Pdf

"The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. In this book, Myriam Chancy encourages us to look at Haiti and to continue to examine the historical and present structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions. And as Haiti is newly recovering from another 7.2 magnitude earthquake from August 2021, the questions that Chancy seeks to answer and the stories she aims to document seem all the more urgent. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, or other venues, the essays in Harvesting Haiti respond to a particular moment and preserve the reactions and urgencies in the years following the 2010 disaster. As Chancy explains, this work "remains pertinent to discussions of Haiti today and to understand what was being discussed in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which continues to mark the country today, is relevant to what may or may not be possible for its future." The volume is organized into five parts, each with a thematic focus that reveals an important element for the context of post-earthquake Haiti. Part I provides political contexts and background, and includes pieces on international aid, Haiti's exclusion from global trade, and overarching issues in the battle for sovereignty. In Part II, an interview and two essays based on invited talks problematize the media's portrayal of gendered issues in the wake of the disaster. Part III takes an artistic turn with a poem and photo essay. Part IV preserves essays originally published in a column in a discontinued magazine insert for The Trinidad Express. Part V looks to the impact of the earthquake on the already vexed relationship between Haiti and their neighbor, the Dominican Republic. The book concludes with a reflection from five years after the earthquake, and then the tenth anniversary of the disaster"--

Author : Myriam J. A. Chancy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477327838

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This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. As the post-earthquake political situation unfolded, Myriam Chancy worked to illuminate on-the-ground concerns, from the vulnerable position of Haitian women to the failures of international aid. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, and circulated in other ways, her essays and creative responses preserve the reactions and urgencies of the years following the disaster. In Harvesting Haiti, Chancy examines the structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions and reflects at key points after the earthquake on its effects on vulnerable communities. Her essays make clear the importance of sustaining and supporting the dignity of Haitian lives and of creating a better, contextualized understanding of the issues that mark Haitians’ historical and present realities, from gender parity to the vexed relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Author : John and Joyce Hanson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449791483

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Harvesting Haiti-Led by the Master by John and Joyce Hanson Pdf

From the coalfields of West Virginia to the small country of Haiti in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, John and Joyce Hanson share their 43-year missionary journey with writer Christine Barbetti-Feamster. Through numerous tropical storms, a kidnapping, an earthquake that threatened to destroy all they ever worked for, and personal tragedy, John and Joyce's faith has triumphed for the glory of God. When you read Harvesting Haiti-Led by the Master be prepared to laugh, cry, and be awed by the miracles of a faithful God who chose a humble coal miner's son and his wife to bring salvation to thousands of lost souls in Haiti. "Inspiring...Genuine" -Stewart Farley "Dynamic Testimony...Laced with Adventure" -Dave Hanson "Superb...Powerful" -Donald Stelting

Author : Christine Barbetto-Feamster
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449791490

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Harvesting Haiti—Led by the Master by Christine Barbetto-Feamster Pdf

From the coalfields of West Virginia to the small country of Haiti in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, John and Joyce Hanson share their 43-year missionary journey with writer Christine Barbetti-Feamster. Through numerous tropical storms, a kidnapping, an earthquake that threatened to destroy all they ever worked for, and personal tragedy, John and Joyces faith has triumphed for the glory of God. When you read Harvesting HaitiLed by the Master be prepared to laugh, cry, and be awed by the miracles of a faithful God who chose a humble coal miners son and his wife to bring salvation to thousands of lost souls in Haiti. InspiringGenuine Stewart Farley Dynamic TestimonyLaced with Adventure Dave Hanson SuperbPowerful Donald Stelting

Author : Mary Jane Camejo,Amy Wilentz
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0929692608

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Harvesting Oppression by Mary Jane Camejo,Amy Wilentz Pdf

Author : Keith Fuglie,Madhur Gautam,Aparajita Goyal,William F. Maloney
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464814297

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Harvesting Prosperity by Keith Fuglie,Madhur Gautam,Aparajita Goyal,William F. Maloney Pdf

Back cover blurb Rising agricultural productivity has driven improvements in living standards for millennia. Today, redoubling that effort in developing countries is critical to reducing extreme poverty, ensuring food security for an increasing global population, and adapting to changes in climate. This volume presents fresh analysis on global trends and sources of productivity growth in agriculture and offers new perspectives on the drivers of that growth. It argues that gains from the reallocation of land and labor are not as promising as believed, so policy needs to focus more on the generation and dissemination of new technologies, which requires stepping up national research efforts. Yet, in many of the poorest nations, a serious research spending gap has emerged precisely at the time when the challenges faced by agriculture are intensifying. The book focuses on how this problem can be redressed in the public sector, as well as on reforms aimed at mobilizing new private sector actors and value chains, particularly creating a better enabling environment, reforming trade regulations, introducing new products, and strengthening intellectual property rights. On the demand side, the book examines what recent research reveals about policies to reduce the barriers impeding smallholder farmers from adopting new technologies. Harvesting Prosperity is the fourth volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers. “As rightly argued by the authors, growth in agricultural productivity is the essential instrument to promote development in low-income agriculture-based countries. Achieving this requires research and development, upgrading of universities, reinforcement of farmer capacities, removal of constraints to adoption, and the development of inclusive value chains with interlinked contracts. As important, such efforts also need to be placed within a context of comprehensive agricultural, rural, and structural transformations. However, in many countries implementation of the requisite policies has been lagging. This book, with contributions from many top experts in the field, provides the most up-to-date presentation of this argument and explains in detail how to successfully put its ideas into practice. Governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations need to study it carefully to turn the promise of agriculture for development into a reality.“ Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet Professors of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley

Author : Rubens Francois Titus
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781475934281

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Roadmap to Haiti’s Next Revolution by Rubens Francois Titus Pdf

Haiti, the first slavery-emancipated black nation on earth, achieved a political revolution for the dignity of man at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Her history is well documented. Scholars have published in-depth analyses on her past and present. Yet she remains an enigma. In Roadmap to Haiti’s Next Revolution: Capitalizing Haiti’s Economy with Haitian Diaspora Remittances, author Rubens Francois Titus attempts to understand the real underpinnings of the Haitian revolution while proposing labels for a number of the most well-known events in Haiti’s history. He also tries to refute some of the most widely accepted contemporary misconceptions about the Haiti of today. There are a number of hard lessons to be learned from studying Haiti’s history. Titus puts forth a series of empirical proposals that can serve as the basis for future political-forum debates among the concerned Diaspora Haitians—debates that ought to lead to the adoption of a Diaspora Plan for Haiti.

Author : Christine Achinger,Robert Fine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317538196

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Antisemitism and Racism by Christine Achinger,Robert Fine Pdf

The growing threat of antisemitism, racism and Islamophobia within the European political landscape poses urgent and difficult questions. These questions concern both commonalities and connections between these forms of prejudice and persecution, and differences regarding their discursive functions and the image of the ‘other’ they project. In this volume we interrogate the specific forms antiracism and anti-antisemitism take in the public sphere, their representation in scholarly discourses, and the fact that they increasingly seem to be at home in separate, and sometimes antagonistic, political and academic camps. We also address the conceptual resources and research tools required to study the unity that lies behind these varied phenomena. This collection has a new introduction and brings together papers that arose out of discussions in the European Sociological Association Network on Racism and Antisemitism, published in European Societies. The chapters relate to current issues in the area of racism and anti-Semitism such as the notable impact of the Israel-Palestine conflict on antisemitism in Europe, the contested ‘antizionist’ humour of Dieudonné in France, relations between antisemitic and Islamophobic attitudes in Italy and Spain, the problem of antisemitic reactions to Islamophobia in Arab media, the historical relation of antisemitism to other kinds of racism in German literary discourse and how their study can be instructive for the investigation of antisemitism and Islamophobia today, the difficulties Marxists internationally have faced in addressing concerns about antisemitism, and current disconnections between racism and antisemitism in the human sciences. These papers raise fundamental issues of understanding the modern world. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Studies.

Author : Marko Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UCBK:C020132993

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Haiti, Country Environmental Profile by Marko Ehrlich Pdf

Author : Tate Watkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-21
Category : Coffee growers
ISBN : 1520418930

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Haitian Coffee Grows on Trees by Tate Watkins Pdf

Many Americans' concept of Haiti goes little beyond disaster, despair, or darkness, if not a single question: "Why is Haiti so poor?" After living in Haiti for nearly four years working as a journalist and then with small-scale coffee farmers, Tate Watkins uses his experience to try to give a glimpse into how things work, or often don't, in the country.Watkins uses coffee as the vehicle to explore the country, tracing the history of the crop from its introduction to the French colony that predated Haiti, which once grew half the world's coffee, to the struggling Haitian coffee sector of today. He also examines how the historical and political foundations of the nation still affect everyday life for coffee farmers and all Haitians, often hamstringing their efforts to get ahead, and documents why the tens of millions of dollars in recent aid spending hasn't been able to stem the decline of the coffee sector. He notes, however, that the evolution of the high-end coffee market might just provide opportunities for Haitian coffee farmers to help themselves, despite the underlying difficulties they face.In Haitian Coffee Grows on Trees, Watkins outlines how, despite the fact that Haiti isn't set up in a way that would help everyday people flourish, small changes still have the potential to add up to real improvements in the lives of ordinary Haitians.

Author : Marc Aurele Holly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : PSU:000008485861

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Agriculture in Haiti by Marc Aurele Holly Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Catholic Relief Services
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Assessment of Haitian Mango Value Chain: A Participatory Assessment of Mango Chain Actors in Southern Haiti by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317593737

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The Haitian Economy (Routledge Revivals) by Mats Lundahl Pdf

Haiti is a very poor country with a stagnant economy. This title, first published in 1983, considers the Haitian economy, placing it in its historical context, and explores the reasons why it has performed so badly. Mats Lundahl examines agriculture, which has failed to provide an adequate standard of living, analyses the structure of agricultural production, and explains why the land is so unproductive. Lundahl analyses why technology in agriculture is so underdeveloped and argues that no government since 1820 has been seriously interested in fostering economic development, since vested interest consistently intervenes to discourage new projects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Grolier, Incorporated
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000058536599

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Haiti by Anonim Pdf

Discusses the festivals and holidays of Haiti and how the songs, foods, and traditions associated with these celebrations reflect the culture of the people.

Author : Hanno Jentzsch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781487508548

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Harvesting State Support by Hanno Jentzsch Pdf

Harvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.