In May 2016, Haïti Priorise held its fourteenth sector expert roundtable to discuss the best solutions to improve nutrition and food security. Roundtable participants were asked to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current policy efforts and to propose actions they think should be prioritized as a means to improve nutrition and food security in Haiti.

1. Nutrition and
Food Security
Research Ideas
Port-au-Prince
May 2016

2. Working with 30-50 economists including Nobel Laureates, 100+ sector experts,
government, donor organizations, civil society, development agencies, businesses,
youth, across rural and urban areas to identify, analyze and prioritize interventions
that will deliver greater benefit per gourde spent, helping move Haiti towards a
more prosperous long term future.

3. Copenhagen Consensus
Center organized roundtable
discussions with an aim to
figure out smarter solutions to
the most problematic issues
facing Haiti.
These roundtables are
one of several sources
for research ideas.

4. Research Ideas

5. Interventions;
(1 of 2)
• Reduce the unemployment rate by investing in the
protection and promotion of the following sectors:
cocoa, coffee and pistachio.
• Invest in existing agricultural production chains (eg.
R&D for rice varieties better adapted to the climate of
Haiti).
• Establish irrigation systems and invest in regular
maintenance of existing systems.
• Create agro-technical training programs in the rural
areas.
• Increase the production of coffee and cocoa in the
country.

6. Interventions;
(2 of 2)
• Exploit potential reserves of cereals, fruits and
vegetables, tubers and fish.
• Strengthening Fisheries (investment in fishing boats,
modern equipment).
• Promote Mango peels as an antioxidant.

7. Access;
(1 of 1)
• Build public markets around the country that meet
international standards.
• Make international markets accessible to farmers.
• Build infrastructure (bridges and roads) to improve
access to local and international markets.
• Export tubers (roots: potatoes, yams, turnips, etc) to
Guadeloupe and Martinique.
• Take advantage of captive markets such as schools,
hospitals, police stations etc. to sell local products; to
promote local production.

8. Post-Harvest;
(1 of 1)
• Create units / storage and processing centers.
• Create conservation centers for seafood.
• Facilitate direct investment in the agro-processing
sector.
• Organize the markets.
• Strengthen farmers' business management capacity so
that they can improve their monitoring and assess their
losses and / or profits.

9. Environment;
(1 of 1)
• Watershed management.
• Create special zones for Agro-forestry.
• Improve soil conservation.
• Increase the area of arable land by relocating people
living in the flat lands.
• Harness renewable energy sources.
• Develop the agro-forestry value chain to re-forest and
commercialize the sector.

10. Nutrition;
(1 of 2)
• Improving access to portable water.
• Create nutrition centers.
• Expand school canteens in all schools.
• Reduce anemia in children under 2 years by increasing
consumption of products rich in iron.
• Offer iron supplementation.
• Reduce chronic malnutrition by increasing the rate of
vaccination against infectious diseases.
• Promote urban agriculture.
• Facilitate women's access to economic resources,
especially single-parent households.

11. Nutrition;
(2 of 2)
• Reduce chronic under-nutrition and obesity.
• Introduce a nutrition training program in schools to
popularize the essential elements of "eating well".
• The promotion of breastfeeding for six months.

12. Legal framework / Public Policy;
(1 of 2)
• Census and identification of people in rural areas.
• Develop and enact a basic law to CNSA.
• Increase girls retention rate in schools.
• Create a space for coordination of stakeholders.
• Make it functional and enhance ODVA in the mountains
and seas.
• A campaign to increase fish consumption in Haiti to
boost the fisheries sector and improve nutrition.
• Reduce air pollution to make urban agriculture more
viable.

13. Legal framework / Public Policy;
(2 of 2)
• Introduce a code of Haitian food and laws in different
areas.
• Ratify the related conventions and treaties.
• Strengthen the capacity of line ministries to better
regulate trade and protect local production.
• Strengthen multi-sectoral governance with regard to
food security: We need a comprehensive policy that
connects the environmental issue with the nutritional
issue, income and also to the question of use of land.
• Establish an organic waste management system.

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