ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of analyses that focus on the impact of interactions among the demographic, economic, and environmental trends in each country. The Food and Agriculture Organization defines arable land as "land under temporary crops, temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow or lying idle" and land under permanent crops as "land cultivated with crops that occupy the land for long periods and need not be replanted after each harvest." Even though the decline of arable land per capita in Haiti compares favorably with declines in other countries, there is cause for some concern regarding its agricultural output. Most of the good farmland in Haiti has long been placed under crops, and subsequent additions to the arable land pool have been of marginal quality. The balance between agricultural production and consumption can determine how well the people eat, as well as foreign currency earnings and import expenditures.
