July 22, 2005
In Rural Haiti, High Hopes on a Shoestring Budget
Throughout Haiti's impoverished, mountainous interior, barefoot peasants haul plows across barren hillsides in a losing battle against nature.
Decades of deforestation have taken their toll, transforming this once-fertile region into a parched wasteland. Farmers are forced to rely increasingly on chemical fertilizers, further sapping the soil's capacity to produce. When that fails, they cut down the few remaining trees to sell as charcoal.
A new private university is working
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