Haiti’s “trouble” with population growth is directly related to the fact that cheap grain has been forced on them unceremoniously from the U.S., cause population is a function of food supply:
Human Population Numbers As a Function of Food Supply
Human Carrying Capacity Is Determined by Food Availability
If any local area is forced to accept a virtual flood of cheap food dumped on them, their population will likely increase proportionally to that dumping, especially if social democracy is repressed at the same time:
Sell The Lexus, Burn The Olive Tree
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein
The effect is magnified if it occurs over many years, when it becomes not “food aid” but “a place to continually dump our cheap grain so the whole economic charade can continue a bit longer.”
If Haiti had been treated as most other industrialized countries have been treated, vs. loan sharking them into ridiculous economic policies, their population would most likely have grown more along with their actual production and import capabilities. Their production would probably have been increased to keep up with more sustainable population growth and demand. And if there hadn’t been direct outside interference to keep them down (see above), the people there may have been able to fight for a more equitable social democracy.
But that’s a whole other issue to be discussed in the population thread--how cheap grain from the United States has helped to create unsustainable population growth in “third world” nations...at the same time as the West has worked feverishly to curtail social democracy in those nations per the same draconian IMF/World Bank policies.
Despite increases in food production, the increase in social/economic democracy in Western nations (specifically the emancipation of women) has led to decreased birth rates in the West and more sustainable population growth. Of course, you can’t achieve that democracy when you’re indebted to powerful institutions who are intent on reducing the population of your country to slave labor for large corporations.
Maybe now that economic chickens are coming home to roost in the West, more people will be willing to see the charade for what it really is, and how it affects them personally. I dunno. ???