Our Mission
The Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) is a Haitian non-profit organization that applies business solutions to help feed and reforest a renewed Haiti by establishing market-based farmer cooperatives, building agricultural export markets, creating rural farm businesses and contributing to community development.
How do we do it?
Members throughout Haiti grow, transplant and look after trees to earn credits, or ‘tree currency’, which gives them access to crop seed, tools, training, microcredit loans and a range of other agricultural services. The entire agroforestry operation is run on organic principles, while the SFA’s cotton farmers are pioneering a new regenerative methodology.
Board of Directors
Hugh Locke
Co-Founder & President
Timote Georges
Co-Founder & Country Director
Raymond Alcide Joseph
Former Haitian Ambassador to the United States
Mark Newton
Head of Regulatory and Environmental Affairs at Samsung Electronics America
Rob Padberg
Director General at Bureau de Nutrition et Développement (BND)
Eliette Pierre
Farmer and Member of Alyans Ti Plantè-Gonaïves
Michèle Pierre-Louis
Executive Director at FOKAL; Former Prime Minister of Haiti
Jean Ernst Saint Fleur
Officer at UNICEF
Jean-Frédéric Salès
Principle at Cabinet Salès
Jane Wynne
Founder at Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve
Advisors
Mark Bamford
Pascale Dejean
Lionel Delatour
John R. Drexel IV
Claudine Francois
Legal Reference
The SFA is organized as a Foundation under the laws of Haiti, is identified by NIF#: 000-049-555-8 and with its principal place of business at 62, rue Geffrard (angle rue Chavannes), HT 6140, Pétion-Ville, Haiti.