Devil is in the Details to Combat Food Insufficiency in Haiti

Yet vertical farming alone is not solving the food insufficiency crisis. A paucity of joiners creates an obstacle to success. Crop producers distrust middlemen, whom they feel are buying at low prices from them and selling high, cheating them of a fair profit. Without adequate participants, food insufficiency in Haiti cannot be managed.

A tangential issue is where to target the resources to help those with the greatest need inter alia. A paradigm, TRIZ, provides a blueprint for attacking food insufficiency, using an inductive method. To reason out the problem, going directly to a solution must be avoided. The process is to first label the signs of a potential food crisis within particular communities. Then survey them to unearth factors of severe and persistent malnutrition, yielding a more comprehensive solution.

Once a solution has been reached, modify it to the locality targeted. Part two entails getting peasants and middlemen to work together with full disclosures of market pricing and demand. A facilitated value chain model has been set in motion between the parties at this point. Follow-up includes monitoring and modifying the system with the aim of providing a real solution to Haiti's food insufficiency crisis.

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