The Challenge

Mountainsides in Haiti were once rich in trees that held the soil. Due to erosion, when it rains, water rushes and floods towns, villages, homes, crops, and animal habitats. Sadly, this trend continues in Haiti.

When the tropical rains pound down on the bare earth, the surface flow takes all the soil with it to pollute the oceans.

• Erosion is one of the problems that has crippled the economy.

• Erosion threatens food security through loss in agricultural production.

• Erosion removes the critical topsoil necessary for agriculture from lands to oceans, where it smothers marine plants and reduces growth.

• Due to deforestation, unstable soils worsen massive landslides.

• Landslides kill thousands of people and animals during hurricanes.

• Top soil takes dozens to hundred of years to regenerate.