Strengthening the capacity of 500 families in Grosse Roche through sustainable agriculture

Families living in Grosse-Roche in Haiti?s North East department face diminishing forest cover poor soil quality and a lack of agricultural supplies hampering their ability to produce food and exacerbating malnutrition and hunger risks.

The IAF supports community-led solutions to expand economic opportunities through sustainable agriculture and micro-enterprises.

Our grantee partner Groupe d?Appui au Dveloppement Rural (GADRU) provides training in sustainable agriculture livestock production and business development for 500 families from the community-based organization Association des Familles Agro-cologiques de Grosse-Roche.

It also maintains a seed bank and distributes seedlings and its participants are distributing their livestock?s offspring to other families as their herds grow. These strategic investments increase farmers? food security and incomes.

FY24 Amendment Blurb This amendment provides Groupe d?Appui au Dveloppement Rural (GADRU) with an additional $375,460 to continue to strengthen the organizational capacity of the grassroots group Association des Familles Agro-cologiques de Grosse Roche (AFAEG) to extend more loans to farmers, increase livestock husbandry, and protect the environment.

As part of this amendment, GADRU is mobilizing an additional $323,949 in counterpart resources to the grant agreement.