It’s a Haitian agronomist, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, who created the seed for this peasant movement 35 years ago on the High Central Plateau. Today this association includes more than 60 000 members. It’s end goal is to promote and innovate agriculture to adapt to small Haitian plantations and respect the environment. MPP educates and backs peasants by offering them the means of being actors and decision-makers of their futures. It intervenes in several sectors:
Education and popular mobilisation
Through education and mobilisation, MPP hopes to raise awareness among the rural populations that they can become important actors in creating a fairer and more unified world.
Peasant Agriculture
Since it’s birth MPP recognises peasant agriculture as the base of sustainable development. Peasant agriculure guarantees food sovereignty, respect of the environment (reforestation, combatting soil erosion...) and the independent development of the country.
Water resource management
The majority of Haitians do not have access to drinking water, or any type of water for that matter, and water is indispensable to agricultural production. MPP helps communities to manage intelligently their water internally: wells, ducts, irrigation technology, etc.
Community health
MPP’s actions around community health were essentially focussed on prevention up until about 10 years ago. MPP recently widened their sphere of action by training health-care workers on traditional medical treatments and the production of natural medicines.
Birth of a partnership
The combat against poverty, closely linked to a backing of social, civic and democratic activity, is part of the mission of Frères des Hommes. Haïti is one of the poorest countries in the world who has lived with repeated social and political turmoil for several decades now. A relationship and exchange of ideas between Frères des Hommes and the Papayan peasant (MPP) has existed for many years. We have together the same values and objectives. Since 2008 a new project, cofinanced by the European Union, was launched and created a means of solidifying the link between Frères des Hommes and MPP.
Our activities together
Haiti - Family agriculture on the High Central Plateau
A message from Haiti: the Papayan peasant movement backs Quimper’s Operation 2000 peasant baskets
