Haiti - Brazilian peasants offer Haitians solidarity initiative

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Many Haitians today have a poor image of Brazil owing to the presence of 1200 Brazilian soldiers on an armed mission for the United Nations, (the United Nations Stabilization Mission In Haiti or the Mission des Nations unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti, MINUSTAH) which received much bad press. To counter this negative image of their country and to prove their solidarity with the Haitians, the Via Campesina Brasil has decided to establish an agroecology institute in collaboration with the four main Haitian peasant associations (the Mouvman Peyizan Papaye, MPP or the Papaya Peasant Movement, ,the Mouvman Peyizan Nasyonal Kongre Papay, MPNKP, Tèt Kolé and Crose).

Haiti - Brazilian peasants offer Haitians solidarity initiative

Haitian peasants will therefore have access to training on environmentally friendly agricultural techniques geared to production for internal consumption that also provides satisfactory income.

Four young Brazilian peasant workers from the Landless Workers Movement (MST or the Mouvement des sans-terre) and the small-scale farmers movement have been in Haiti for the last 5 months and will stay there until the end of December 2009 to work on this project with the Haitian associations. Haiti’s Ministry of Agriculture has already agreed to provide a site and land for future students. This project brings together two Freres des Hommes partners, the MST and the MPP, for the development of peasant agriculture!

Discover other collaborative actions implemented by the Freres des Hommes with the MPP in Haiti and the MST in Brasil.

Update: Tuesday 24 November 2009
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