{"id":46359,"date":"2017-01-31T17:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=46359"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:42:34","slug":"kombit-documents-struggle-reforest-haiti-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/kombit-documents-struggle-reforest-haiti-film-review\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Kombit’ Documents the Struggle to Reforest Haiti (Film Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
We were recently treated to a preview screening of the film “Kombit<\/a>” which unpacks the work being done by way of a partnership between the non-profit “Smallholder Farmers Alliance” and the Timberland company in Haiti.<\/p>\n Haiti has a major issue with deforestation with over 98% of the nation stripped of trees as a direct result\u00a0of the ever growing demand for charcoal which has turned large swaths of the country into desert. To make matters worse, the country has fallen into a drought and was hit with a major earthquake in\u00a02010.<\/p>\n The film “Kombit” documents the work done amidst what seemed a hopeless downward trend for the environment by the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (aka SFA) in partnership with multinational Timberland who catalyzed\u00a0an effort to rebuild local farming in Haiti from the ground up. The SFA was created out of the unlikely partnership between Haitian Timote Georges and Canadian Hugh Locke who discovered a shared passion for the revitalization of Haitian farming through education and community.<\/p>\n