October 2012, 274 pages, 4.94 MB PDF).The first integrated, MDG-based assessment for the ten communes of the south-western peninsula of Haiti produced in more than ten years. It includes analysis of spatial and household survey data covering bio-physical features, socio-economic conditions,and capacity for social service provision to land management. Related reports that were issued are
- The Integrated Baseline Study: Port-à-Piment Watershed, South Department, Haiti and the
- Landscape Baseline Assessment: Port-à-Piment Watershed, South Department, Haiti, which provides quantitative analysis of the landscape conditions in the Port-à-Piment Watershed, including analysis on land use and land cover, erosion, soil conditions, vegetative structures, and soil critical for land management planning, modeling potential land use scenarios, and as base layers to help local Ministry of Agriculture extension agents and community based organizations identify priority zones; and
- Land Use and Land Cover Baseline Report: Data and Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Practices, South Department, Haiti. This report documents the methodology for mapping the characteristics across the South Department and provides preliminary analysis on land use patterns at three different geographic scales: the entire department, the nine communes of the Côte Sud and the watershed of Port-à-Piment.