Sustainable Agriculture Haiti Project #63361

Provide quality seeds for 500 farmers in Haiti

by Concorde Haitienne de Securite Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle - CHSAN

Project Report | Jan 5, 2026
No Food Security Without Quality Seeds: A New Year

By Fabienne Sanon | Chef of Project

No Food Security Without Quality Seeds: A New Year, A New Commitment

As we enter 2026, the food crisis remains a pressing reality in Haiti, particularly in the Grand'Anse region. Despite the richness of our fertile lands, many communities lack access to quality seeds, a crucial element for ensuring food security.

At CHSAN, we firmly believe that democratizing access to seeds is essential to empowering farmers and improving food security in our communities. That's why, this year, we are intensifying our efforts to raise awareness among all stakeholders about the importance of equitable access to quality seeds.

Our initiatives for 2026 include:

Farmer Training: We will set up training sessions to teach farmers how to develop seed banks. This will enable them to conserve and reproduce their own seeds from harvests, thus ensuring sustainable production.

Raising Awareness Among Local Stakeholders: We will collaborate with community leaders, NGOs and institutions to promote the importance of access to quality seeds and encourage policies that support local production.

Capacity Building: By training farmers in modern cultivation and seed selection techniques, we aim to improve the productivity of their gardens, enabling them to produce enough food for their families and communities.

We firmly believe that through these actions, we can help create a future where every family has access to sufficient and nutritious food.

Together, let's make food security a priority and give farmers the tools they need to succeed.

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By Sanon Fabienne | Project Leader

May 30, 2025
No Food Security Without Seeds: CHSAN Advocates fo

By Guelson Jean-Louis | Project Leader

The Concorde Haïtienne de Sécurité Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle (CHSAN) strongly upholds a fundamental truth that is too often overlooked: there can be no food security without free, equitable, and sustainable access to quality seeds.

In a region like Grand’Anse, where family farming feeds the vast majority of the population, seeds are much more than just an agricultural input. They are the foundation of the food chain, the key to farmers’ autonomy, and a common good that underpins the food sovereignty of an entire nation.

Seeds: A Matter of Life

Each seed carries the potential for life, nutrition, and resilience. Yet in Haiti, access to climate-adapted, nutritious, and reproducible seeds remains limited. Farmers are often left with low-quality seeds—unsuited to their environment, or worse, imposed through opaque commercial networks or foreign aid.

CHSAN is advocating for rural communities’ right to produce, exchange, preserve, and select their own seeds. This ancestral right is under threat from agricultural standardization and market-driven systems that promote hybrid seeds—often sterile and controlled by large seed corporations.

Fighting for Seed Sovereignty

Through its agroecological projects in Ranja, Pestel, and beyond, CHSAN is setting up community nurseries, promoting local seed varieties, and training farmers in seed saving and multiplication. These initiatives restore Haitian farmers’ power to feed their families with dignity and sustainability.

To sow is to resist. In the face of rising food insecurity, soil degradation, and climate change, seed sovereignty is a vital form of grassroots self-defense. This is why CHSAN calls on public authorities, technical and financial partners, and civil society to recognize the right to seeds as a fundamental human right.

A Path to Food for All

Ensuring equitable access to quality seeds is not just an agricultural issue: it is a matter of social justice, public health, and peace. It is also an essential step toward realizing the right to food for all—here in Haiti and around the world.

CHSAN will continue its work so that every farmer can sow freely, and every seed planted becomes a promise of life, dignity, and a shared future.

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