Earning and Returning
November 06, 2011 2:51 PM
JATROFA PEPINYE is knocking on the door of sustainability - we haven't stepped through that door yet, but we're close. We're now making products for sale in Haiti and returning the money to the farmers who grow Jatropha. Acting as a cooperative, JP buys seeds from farmers at a good price, makes products from the seed oil, and sells them in the market - not for export but for use in Haiti. The things we make are things that Haitians need and use and which are otherwise imported into Haiti - like diesel fuel and soap. Locally grown, locally made, and locally consumed. In our way of thinking that is the sustainable way. Every time someone buys one of our bars of soap or uses a gallon of our biodiesel, it's money in the pocket of an independent Haitian farmer. READ THE OCT 2011 NEWSLETTER: CLIMATE AND CASH for more.
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