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To improve rural development policies, including increasing access to land rights, by organizing lobbying campaigns directed at the national government and implementing food sovereignty initiatives with small producers.

To strengthen the organizational capacity of peasant organizations in the North, Northeast and Central Plateau regions of Haiti through exchange visits, civic education for youth, and agro-ecological and collective leadership trainings.

To promote sustainable, community-based land management by establishing community learning centers in targeted areas and strengthening the Northern Land Network that advocates for land reform.

To protect Garifuna communities' natural resource rights through advancing cases in support of Garifuna communal rights before the Inter-American Court for Human Rights, conducting community radio programs, and strengthening a climate change adaptation network.

To promote sustainable development and food security by running model farms, training youth in agricultural planning, conservation and social and economic rights, and documenting unsustainable agricultural practices.

To advance food sovereignty and sustainable management of water and energy by training community members in agro-ecology techniques, food sovereignty, and sustainable use and production of energy and water; and supporting a network of rural peasant families.

To promote the human rights and economic empowerment of rural women through a range of services, including facilitating a community vegetable garden, improved irrigation system and provision of agricultural inputs.

To advance the right to housing, employment and social security for informal economy workers and slum residents by community organizing, livelihood activities and advocacy campaigns.

To protect equal access to water by providing legal defense for farmer cooperatives, designing sustainable management systems for communal sources of water, and strengthening local and national alliances.

To strengthen food security and the economic well-being of peasant farmers in the West and Artibonite Departments through access to credit, seeds for crop diversification, and model farms demonstrating sustainable ways to increase crop yields and restore the environment.