ORE development projects in Haiti. ORE's mission is to improve environmental, agricultural and economic conditions in rural Haiti with high revenue tree crops, improved seeds and marketing programs.

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Mission Statement: ORE is working to improve environmental, agricultural and economic conditions in rural Haiti. Our development projects involve high revenue tree crops, improved seeds, cash crops and marketing programs. Working directly with farmers, we are able to provide practical solutions to deforestation and subsistence farming. We offer commercial quality plant materials and the technical assistance needed for successful production and marketing.

ORE's CORE PROJECTS
The key goals of our development projects in Haiti are to increase farmer income, produce nutritionally enhanced food, and to improve the environment with commercial fruit trees. Practical agricultural training and hands-on technical assistance are essential means to achieve these goals. The three core development projects we have developed to achieve these goals are improved seeds, high value tree crops, and vegetable and tuber crops.

Biofortification of staple food crop: Since 2004, our crop breeding program has been focusing on enhancing the nutritional content of Haiti's major staple crops: breeding crops for better nutrition. By improving the nutrient content of staple foods it is possible to help resolve several factors that contribute to malnutrition in Haiti. This is a highly sustainable approach. Nutritionally improved varieties will continue to be grown and consumed year after year, even if government attention and international funding for micronutrient issues fade.

ORE is also involved in variety of activities designed to improve the quality of life in rural Haiti. These include protection of drinking water systems, promoting schools and low cost housing projects in areas threatened by environmental degradation.

LINKS TO AUDIO SLIDE SHOWS:

	Quality Protein Maize
	Regenerating Plantain and Banana Production
	Vitamin-rich Sweet Potato

SOLUTIONS FOR TODAY'S HAITI
In a country where acute poverty, outmoded agriculture and widespread deforestation go hand in hand, solutions have to offer both economic and environmental benefits.

By promoting fruit trees, such as mango, avocado and citrus, and bamboo, experience shows that in time communities start to protect their trees because of the attractive revenue they generate. The grafting program helps to boost Haiti's mango export industry and extend the avocado season. Bamboo are a renewable source of material for construction and handicrafts.

By providing improved nutrient-rich seeds and offering production and marketing assistance, we are able to help the farmers replace subsistence farming with commercially successful agriculture - and also provide the nutrients through improved staple foods and help resolve malnutrition.

Biofortified Seeds	High Value Tree Crops	Nutrient-rich Varieties

PROGRAM GOALS
The Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment is a small grassroots organization established in Haiti in 1985 to protect the environment and increase local farmers' income. In the design of our development projects, we recognize that all four aspects of Haiti's rural predicament - economic, ecological, nutritional and technical - are inter-linked. By working closely with farmer groups, over the years, we have been able to offer practical help to the rural population in the south of Haiti, the majority of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Economic gains and improved nutrition result from high value tree crops (grafted fruit trees, such as mango, avocado, citrus - and bamboo), improved seeds (including QPM maize, iron-rich beans) and other high-yield staple crops. The challenge is to expand on the experience and technical capabilities developed and achieve a widespread impact.

Economic Gains through higher yield crops, intensifying and stabilizing production, and energetic marketing strategies		Biofortified Foods for Improved Nutrition through research and production of quality-protein maize (QPM), vitamin A rich sweet potatoes, iron-rich beans and extended fruit seasons by grafting selected varieties.

Agricultural Education through propagation, production and post-harvest training sessions, and hands-on technical assistance in the field.		Environmental Protection through promotion of commercial tree crops, soil conservation measures and the use of cover crops to combat deforestation.

Since 1985, the Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment
has developed and operated fruit tree grafting and crop improvement programs in rural Haiti.
During those years several international agencies have generously provided the funding that made it possible to maintain continuity of our development projects. These include USAID, the European Union, the Canadian Embassy, Inter-American Development Bank and other contributors.

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