Photos > Planting Trees in Haiti
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A collection of photos showing the tree planting activities of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance.
Photo: SFA/Sebastian Petion.
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Fruit trees are an important part of the overall tree planting by the Smallholder Farmers Alliance. Shown here is a papaya.
Photo: William Charles Moss.
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The SFA agroforestry cooperative near Gonaives now plants one million trees a year.
Photo: SFA/Sebastian Petion.
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Rigaud Joseph is typical of small-scale farmers in Haiti, shown here with four of his five children. They live near the rural community of Rofilie, and Rigaud has been a member of SFA since 2010.
Photo: SFA/Sebastian Petion.
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This is the main nursery in Mapou, near Gonaives. There are seven additional smaller nurseries spread out within a twenty-square-mile area.
Photo: SFA.
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Compost-enriched soil is put into plastic bags in preparation for transferring the tree seedlings when they are a few months old.
Photo: SFA.
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Tree seedlings are grown in beds protected by palm leaves (above right) before being transferred to plastic bags to continue growing.
Photo: SFA.
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The farmer members of SFA tending the main nursery in Mapou, which produces 500,000 trees a year.
Photo: SFA.
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Here SFA farmers are tending one of the seven smaller nurseries, each of which produces around 70,000 trees a year.
Photo: SFA.
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During peak work periods at the tree nurseries, farmers are given a hot meal at lunch time.
Photo: SFA/Sebastian Petion.
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The reason there are eight nurseries is that they need to be close enough to the farms that the trees can be transported by wheelbarrow when it is time to plant them.
Photo: SFA/Louis Dario Louis.
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There are many ways in which the trees get planted once they have left the nurseries. Here farmers are preparing to plant trees in a field used to grow vegetables.
Photo: SFA.
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These farmers are planting trees to create a living fence that will protect their field from wandering livestock.
Photo: SFA.
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When it is time to plant trees, the whole family gets involved and not just the farmers.
Photo: SFA/Sebastian Petion.
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SFA conducts regular environmental education classes for the children of farmer members so they will grow up appreciating the importance of planting and protecting trees.
Photo: SFA.
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This farmer is planting a tree as part of a program to restore community-owned land that is currently not able to grow crops.
Photo: SFA/Sebastian Petion.
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This is community-owned land on which farmers have planted trees in an effort to restore it for future agricultural use.
Photo: SFA.
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It is very popular for trees to be planted by SFA members next to their house. Shown here is a papaya tree.
Photo: William Charles Moss.
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The agroforestry nature of the operation (trees and crops on the same land) is illustrated here, with a line of papaya trees (in the foreground) growing in the middle of a field of beets.
Photo: SFA.
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This farmer is growing the Cedrela odorata tree, known by its common name sèd in Creole. She will be able to harvest the trees in another two years to sell as timber, and they will then grow back from the root.
Photo: SFA.
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This image shows Jatropha curcas, or gwo medsiyen, planted as a living fence to both protect a field of corn from wandering livestock and establish a fixed boundary with the adjoining field.
Photo: SFA.
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This shows a mixture of trees planted for timber and fruit in the yard of a farmhouse.
Photo: SFA.
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There are times the farmers need to provide extra protection to young trees to protect them from goats and other wandering livestock.
Photo: SFA.
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Trees are also planted in pasture land in order to provide fodder for livestock such as this donkey.
Photo: SFA.
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This farmer is showing off her field of trees that will shortly be under-planted with beans.
Photo: SFA.