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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
ROME, Italy – Two United Nations food agencies are setting up a $10.2 million aid package for to aid small farmers in Haiti and boost agricultural production in the impoverished and storm-ravaged country.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) about 240,000 farmers in Haiti will receive seeds and plants over the next 15 months under an agreement with the Haitian government.
The $10M package will come from the International Fund for Agricultural Development, which works to help small farmers and is based in Rome along with the FAO.
Haiti recently suffered four tragic hurricanes recently which have destroyed about 60 percent of that country’s harvest. Haiti, which has for years been plagued by social, economic and political turmoil earlier this year, had deadly food riots because of the debilitating food crisis.
As more hunger looms over the impoverished nation, developed and developing countries have been coming to Haiti, to stem the tide of hunger and unrest.
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