In this brief, the World Food Programme (WFP) is introducing its flagship integrated climate-risk management approach, the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4), to address both the climatic and non-climatic drivers of vulnerability in Haiti. WFP Haiti is combining a set of integrated risk management strategies, including access to microinsurance, as …
eleven years ago, about 4,000 metric tonnes of toxic incinerator ash was dumped from the city of Philadelphia, usa, near the town of Gonaives in Haiti. The waste was to be shipped back to the us in mid-November 1998. But the Caribbean Dredging Excavation, the company entrusted with collecting the …
