High-quality, fair trade cocoa in Haiti
Organic sesame production in Cambodia
Consolidated agricultural cooperatives
Combating food insecurity in Haiti’s Central Plateau
Agroecology, an essential solution for combating malnutrition
At the Nutrition For Growth Summit in Paris on March 27 and 28, AVSF is defending agroecology as a concrete, realistic solution. In 2023, approximately 733 million people worldwide suffered from hunger, representing 9.1% of the global population, equivalent to 1 in 11 people. More than 36 million children under the age of 5 suffer […]
Annual Report 2023
The activity report is the most comprehensive document for everything you need to know about AVSF’s missions and the 2023 balance sheet.
Organic Certification Preparation Manual
This guide is specifically intended for Producer Organisations (POs) located incountries outside the European Union (EU), as well as for AVSF’s technical teamsworking with them. Its objective is to describe the different stages of organic certification, and tohighlight the difficulties that can be encountered, in order to anticipate and planas well as possible this process […]
Faced with the climate crisis, boosting productive capacity
Scaling up and diversifying agricultural production to reduce malnutrition in southern Laos
In southern Laos, one of society’s biggest challenges is the problem of malnutrition, which affects a large proportion of the population, especially children. According to the WHO, 44% of children under the age of five are stunted, 27% are underweight and 6% suffer from wasting (marasmus). These rates, among the highest in the Western Pacific […]
Innovative agricultural and agroforestry techniques for coffee
Covered with 3/4 of mountains and constituted of soils of limestone types and recent alluvium, Haiti has favorable spaces for coffee culture. Nevertheless, the coffee sector has been in gradual decline for more than 20 years. Most families in coffee-growing areas are in a precarious economic situation and face high insecurity regarding access to food. […]
Innovative agricultural and agroforestry techniques for cocoa
In Haiti, cocoa production involves between 20,000 and 30,000 families of small producers. Cocoa accounts for 60% of a cocoa farmer’s total income. Cocoa is generally cultivated in multi-species agroforestry systems in association with food crops, timber and fruit trees forming several strata. These agroforestry systems organized around cocoa also play a key role in […]
Coffee and cocoa gardens
The Southern Department of Haiti is characterized by an important biodiversity, a rugged and fragmented landscape. Agriculture is the main activity and allows several thousand families to live. The agroforestry sector represents a major asset, both from an economic and environmental point of view: the “Creole garden”, combining shade wood, fruit, coffee, cocoa, tubers and […]
