ATTITUDIST
To improve the food and economic security of urban households affected
by the January 2010 earthquake, CEDDISEC, with support from Episcopal
Relief & Development, has launched a program to promote kitchen
gardens, which in Creole are called Jardins prè-Kay. CEDDISEC’s kitchen
garden program seeks to enable families to produce a variety of
vegetables for both consumption and sale, thus improving household food
availability and pocket money. Kitchen gardens are versatile in both
their structure and size, thus enabling families to create productive
gardens inside of old tires, grain sacks, half-barrels, etc., and within
very confined spaces. At the same time, by applying the appropriate
techniques, kitchen gardens can be cultivated year-round, regardless of
the season.
Activities
CEDDISEC’s agriculture objectives are: 1) To facilitate people’s access to the resources (i.e., techniques, seeds and tools) necessary to create small kitchen gardens that do not depend upon their access to expansive or traditional plots of agricultural land; and 2) To share opportunities for experiential and technical learning that will enable people to engage in vegetable production and diversify vegetable consumption throughout the year without seasonal variations.
Additional information
For additional information see Episcopal Relief & Development's Phase III Haiti Recovery Program webpages at http://www.er-d.org/HaitiPhaseIII
Cross-cutting issues
Food Security
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