An experiment in Haiti is making once-arid lands fertile, and poor farmers into money-makers

Miami Herald via Yahoo ^ | November 24, 2023 | Jacqueline Charles

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Alright, Einstein.

How about explaining why he chose to let Haitians suffer all these years before having his sudden, unilateral epiphany which is based upon decades-old technology and AG knowledge common to the rest of the world?

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Sorry, I thought you might be smart enough to figure that out for yourself, or that you might have read the article.

Assignment for the student - read the article and let us know what it said about the history of the project.

A hint. The guy recently went back to Haiti to join in his family business after gaining work experience. And he decided to look at a way to increase exports so his family's shipping business could benefit. Improving agriculture in that part of Haiti was a part of his plan.

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Gee: If you only had a brain. I see that you're a uke cheerleader, so it's understandable that you have at least one disorder resulting from cranial-sphincter inversion, but I digress.

I'll analyze the foundation of this clever little puff piece (origin 'affirmative action') JUST for you:

Growing up in a poverty-stricken Haiti as a member of a well-off family,

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For 200 years, the Handal family exported coffee, once among the island’s most lucrative cash crops. But deforestation, natural disasters and the increasing need for coffee to be grown at higher elevations due to warming temperatures led to a rapid decline in coffee production. In 2008, Handal said the family was shipping 33 cargo containers of coffee beans each season.

A year later, before the devastating 2010 earthquake further decimated production, the family shipped only two containers “because we couldn’t find any coffee.”

Handel said that an investigation into the demise of Haiti’s coffee market led him to conclude that the family needed to invest in agricultural production. But more than a decade went by before he revisited the idea of exports, spending most of the time working in the family’s shipping business in Port-au-Prince.

This asshat grew up with a silver spoon, the business tanked (purported as 'warming climate' reasons; yeah right), someone writes a climate propaganda/tearjerker piece and you snort it up like any other clickbait addict.

Real nice. /s

Oh, and by the way 'student', here's the money quote exemplifying the basis of my original comment (cited here I wonder who is underwriting the so-called ‘entrepreneurs’ behind this effort.):

“When we were presenting clean cooking as an alternative, the question we were always presented with was, ‘What about the farmer who lives off charcoal?’ ” Marcelin adds. “This is why we started thinking about agriculture.”

Just what IS the origin of clean cooking???

Since you're demonstrably both lazy and pompous - a combination strikingly reflective of a dem troll - let me lay it out for you:

Clean Cooking Alliance

Who is behind the CCA?

World Bank

The World Bank fund was launched by Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit.

ESMAP CLEAN COOKING FUND | PROGRAM PROFILE A New Investment Paradigm for Ending Cooking Poverty

One of ESMAP's stated agendas:

Achieving Universal Access by 2030: Achieving decarbonization across the energy sector in support of international commitments on climate change.

I'm not going down the bunnyhole of ESMAP's global partners, but I will cite the following:

Five activities in the global economy — building things, growing food, transportation, generating electricity, and keeping buildings warm and cool — account for 100% of GHG emissions, and in every single one there are new startups developing technologies to decarbonize them.

I call these the “five grand challenges,” and if I were issuing an innovation report card, each would receive an A or B for the pace and promise of the R&D. In fact, if there weren’t so many sources of emissions — if there were, say, one or two grand challenges, instead of five — we’d be on track to achieve a net-zero world in the next decade or two.

Unfortunately, climate change is a bigger and more complex problem than most people imagine — and the problem is still growing faster than our ability to solve it. We need to find new ways to accelerate our efforts — fast-forward buttons for decarbonization.

Breakthrough Energy Founder Bill Gates on the State of the Energy Transition

And lookee what I found (/s):

Clean cooking named as a critical “Breakthrough” to halve emissions by 2030

At COP27, the UN Climate Change High Level Champions, together with the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), recognized clean cooking as one of the critical 2030 Breakthroughs and set a shared target for governments, donors, and private sector actors to urgently expand access to clean cooking for 2.4 billion people through at least $10 billion in innovative finance each year.

Oh, and just WHEN did all these changes occur in Haiti? Permit me to remind the STUDENT:

A year ago, such a lush landscape was unimaginable for Fransik Monchèr, a farmer and father of seven who couldn’t even grow fiery habanero peppers because they quickly died. All that changed the day a group of entrepreneurs decided to take a gamble to launch a socioeconomic experiment...

This is the SAME BS behind both the banning of ICE vehicle sales and the banning of natural gas appliances here in the US.

If you REALLY believe that this do-gooder simply decided to 'give back' absent absolutely any outside influence whatsoever, go ahead and try to frame your pathetic argument absent additional quotes from the propaganda piece.

And by the way, here's a citation of the ultimate hypocrisy from our billionaire overlords:

Cooking goes much faster when you start with a gas stove instead of an ax and a tree.