By Peter Costantini

A group of families in rural Haiti have built a henhouse and are selling the eggs to supplement their income. An agronomist from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. advises them. Life is hard in the Haitian countryside, but people are diversifying their ways of making a living. (Video shot May 2010, completed January 2011.)

o For a story that explains more about this and other FAO projects in the area, see: HAITI: Hurricanes and the River Flowing. September 16, 2010. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52872

o For an interview with Volny Paultry, the FAO chief agronomist in Haiti seen in the video, see: Q&A: "Agrarian Reform Is Indispensible for Haiti" - Peter Costantini interviews VOLNY PAULTRE, chief agronomist for the FAO. May 26, 2010. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51592

"Day of Mourning Is Day of Frustration" - Video from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, covering three activities on Jan. 12, 2011, the one-year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake from Haiti Grassroots Watch. 

A dispatch beginning at 10pm the night of the 12 January earthquake,  which resumes the following morning after IPS reporter, Ansel Herz, caught  some sleep in an open bus abandoned in downtown Port-Au-Prince. 
Credit: Ansel Herz