Cholera Epidemic Devastates Haiti October Rice Harvest and Promises Yet More Damage | L’épidémie de choléra pourrait affecter la prochaine campagne agricole dans l’Artibonite, spécialement la production de riz

By Gotson Pierre, Francesca Theosmy and Ronald Colbert, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Since the 1980s, Haiti’s production of its own food has dropped from over 80 Percent to less than 40 percent. The latest blow was the was the introduction of cholera into the Artibonite River during the rice harvest. (English | French)

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