Right to Livelihoods in Haiti

TABLES
Table 1: Change in Hatchery Capacity vs. Actual Production 1980 – 2012……………………………………. 4
Table 2: Comparison of Prices in Haiti Before and After June 6 th 2012 Ban on Imported Eggs……. 10
Table 3: Care of Chickens (N=209) …………………………………….…………………………………….……………………. 11
Table 4: Biggest Reason For Eggs Losses…………………………………….……………………………………………….. 12
Table 5: Animals that Eat Eggs (n=50) …………………………………….………………………………………………….. 12
Table 6 Explanation for "other reasons" respondent loses eggs (n=25) ………………………………………. 12
Table 7: Explanations Give for "Other" Reasons to Raise Chickens (n=18) …………………………………… 15
Table 8: Average cost of Birds…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………… 17
Table 9: Main Reason Farmers Gave for not Investing in More Chickens …………………………………… 19
Table 10: Time to Recuperate Chicken…………………………………….…………………………………………………. 19
Table A2.1: Formal Sector Employment (USD…………………………………….……………………………………….. 29
Table A2.2: Informal Sector Employment…………………………………….……………………………………………… 29
Table A2.3: Entrepreneurial Sector…………………………………….……………………………………………………….. 29
Table N1: Poultry Diseases…………………………………….…………………………………….……………………………… 47
Table N2: Pounds of feed to produce 1 pound Live weight or Eggs…………………………………………….. 49
Table N3: Number of Chickens Owned, for Farmers who Own Chickens (n =209) ……………………… 50
CHARTS
Figure 1: Growth in Dominican Egg Production Year 2002 to 2012……………………………………………… 4
Figure 2: Changing Farm gate/Wholesale Prices for Eggs in the USA, DR, and Haiti……………………… 5
Figure 3: Integrated Household Subsistence Strategies and the Market ……………………………………… 13
Figure 4: Most important reason for raising chickens …………………………………………………………………. 15
Figure 5: Second Most important reason for raising chickens…………………………………………………….. 15
Figure 6: Good Mother vs. Good Layer…………………………………….…………………………………………………. 17
Figure 7: Proportion of Farmer Respondents that Have vs. Do Not Have any Chickens……………… 18
Figure 8: Number of Chickens Owned per Farming Household…………………………………………………… 18
Figure 9: Number of Chickens that Respondents Usually Have in Flock………………………………………. 19