'Local is better': battered Haiti looks to empower peasants to fight climate crisis

A grassroots body, MPP, aims to help subsistence farmers reduce erosion and flooding and increase food securityHelp us support those on the frontline of the climate emergencyOur charity appeal has raised ?720,000. Add your donation hereHaiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, has often been a byword for deforestation and environmental calamity. It is often said that its border with the Dominican Republic can be seen from space, so marked is the difference between the lush forests to the east, and the scarred wasteland to the west."In nature everything is connected to one other," said Jean-Baptiste Chavannes, who in 1973 founded the Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP), which works to tackle deforestation and the climate crisis in Haiti's poorest regions. "To disturb one is to disturb all." Continue reading...