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Haiti Progress NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from rural Haiti that more and more farmers are combating grinding poverty by forming cooperatives. Agricultural co-ops have a long history in Haiti, but they were suppressed for many years by various dictators. Since the restoration of democratic rule in 1994, the co-op movement has taken off, and the number of such efforts has sharply increased.

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NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from rural Haiti that more and more farmers are combating grinding poverty by forming cooperatives. Agricultural co-ops have a long history in Haiti, but they were suppressed for many years by various dictators. Since the restoration of democratic rule in 1994, the co-op movement has taken off, and the number of such efforts has sharply increased.