July 22, 2005

In Rural Haiti, High Hopes on a Shoestring Budget

By MARION LLOYD

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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

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