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areas unprotected from ooding. As rural livelihoods are directly impacted, regular sources of revenues from agriculture are weakened, often leading the poorest population to chop more trees for making and selling charcoal. To stop the destructive cycle it is critical to address deforestation and its root causes. Environmental services and rural livelihoods all depend on the development of sustainable mechanisms to reverse the deforestation cycle. These would ultimately enable rehabilitating key watersheds and their environmental and economic functions. Moringa Pods
A market-based ecosystem that create market value for trees and increases tree cover
Haiti Forests innovative approach is to create market value around trees by creating agroforestry social businesses. These social businesses target high-value local and international markets such as fresh and transformed fruits, cosmetic products, perfume ingredients, construction materials, and energy sources. The businesses will be nancially self-sustainable. By improving livelihoods of smallholders, they will directly contribute to alleviating pressure on trees, making the tree cutting for charcoal less necessary. The social businesses of the Haiti Forest ecosystem will be complementary to each other and form a coherent value chain (e.g. production of agro-forestry products, transformation into value-added products, marketing and sales). In very degraded areas on the hillsides, soil fertility, environmental risks and logistical access are strong challenges to be overcome, and a fully commercial approach might not be adapted. However this is where the impact of reforestation would be the strongest, with environmental benets cascading to the lower altitudes. This is why a protected forest area will be designed and implemented. It can be based on carbon nance to support part of its setup and maintenance costs. In the rst two-year phase, Haiti Forest aims at kickstarting the whole ecosystem on a small scale, with up to 8 social businesses. Once the model has been validated, Haiti Forest will be scaled to signicantly increase its impact, and potentially replicated in other parts of Haiti.
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