screener, what would be Haiti’s energy budget? They have little natural energy resources, so do they get to use imports?
The basic math is the following: for Haiti in 2008, 8.9 million people, 775,000 ha of arable land. That makes 0.087 ha of arable land per person. Population growth rate 2.4%.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...ha.html#People
Compare this with the World: 6677.6 million people, 1982 million ha of arable land. This makes 0.297 ha of arable land per person. Population growth rate 1.16%.
I suggest it doesn’t matter what is done for Haiti, they are very unlikely to be able to feed their current population without imports. Haiti has 44,000 ha in coffee, but much of this land would be unsuitable for growing cereals, such as rice (the Haitian staple). In the case of Haiti, insisting coffee came out and food crops went in would likely have minimal impact on food security, but a major impact on the economic circumstances of coffee growers.