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Food production
Community gardens, sustainable livestock, soil health, and precision agriculture that help families grow nourishing food with confidence.
Our work
Build the systems that make relief less necessary.
Five connected sectors turn a big ambition into practical work: food, energy, skills, livelihoods, and local ownership.
The five sectors
A full picture of what it takes to thrive.
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Energy independence
Biodigesters, improved wood stoves, and waste-to-energy systems that turn local resources into cleaner cooking fuel and fertilizer.
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Preservation skills
Canning, fermenting, and dehydrating that make every harvest last longer and reduce waste at the household level.
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Craftsmanship
Woodworking, sewing, tool repair, and artisan enterprise that create livelihoods and reduce dependence on imported goods.
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Sustainable tourism
Community-centered tourism that creates income while strengthening, rather than undermining, local culture and ecology.
HAITI 2050
What Haiti 2050 has to solve.
Haiti 2050 starts from two measurable problems. Every HDNF program is meant to move these two numbers.
Acute food insecurity
- 5.7 to 5.9 million people in Haiti — over half the population — face acute food insecurity.
- 1.9 million are at emergency levels (IPC Phase 4).
- Approximately 6,000 face catastrophic hunger (IPC Phase 5).
- The crisis is driven by escalating gang violence, which has displaced more than 1.4 million people and disrupted supply chains, compounded by a collapsing economy with food inflation exceeding 35 percent and climate shocks such as Hurricane Melissa.
HDNF target by 2050: one million small-scale subsistence farmers cultivating plots averaging 0.93 hectares (roughly 2.3 acres), with 60 percent of the country's total population involved in agricultural activities.
The artisan sector
- 400,000 artisans work in Haiti.
- The sector supports around one million people.
HDNF target by 2050: a stronger artisan sector, with 400,000 artisans working in Haiti and the sector supporting around one million people.
The Haitian people: Jaden Lakou
Farms and workshops are not the whole picture. The third group is the Haitian people themselves — households, families, and neighbors who can grow food where they live.
Jaden Lakou is HDNF's household gardening program, patterned after the Victory Gardens of the First and Second World Wars, when families across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany planted vegetables, fruits, and herbs at private residences and in public parks. Those gardens put food within reach of ordinary households during a national emergency.
Jaden Lakou applies that idea to Haiti: a yard garden at every willing home, with simple guidance on what to plant and when.
HDNF direction: a working food garden at every willing household, adding household production to the national food supply.
Victory Gardens history: History.com, “America’s Patriotic Victory Gardens,” updated February 18, 2025.
Crisis figures describe conditions in Haiti as of 2026. Targets are HDNF commitments for 2050, not projections.
What the work leaves behind
200
chickens placed with families
16,470
eggs produced through breeding
80
households growing through gardens
3,600
acres screened for precision agriculture
Featured initiative
Diagnose the land before prescribing a solution.
Haiti's soil has faced centuries of depletion, erosion, and changing conditions. Generic agricultural advice cannot account for one farmer's plot.
HDNF's Precision Agriculture Initiative starts with local land data, then combines soil analysis, satellite imagery, vegetation health indices, and terrain mapping. The result is a recommendation grounded in the ground itself: what to grow, where to sample, and how to raise yields.
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