Resnel Pierre Louis weeds in his garden of green onions and cabbage. Louis says that because of the road improvements farmers are planting more because transportaition for their products to Les Cayes and Port-Au-Prince is more readily available. The Inter-American Development Bank is funding a road project in the south of Haiti, aiming to cut travel time and transportation costs, and to improve living conditions in the southern provinces. This 50-mile stretch of road connects the small cities of Les Cayes and Jeremie and many rural villages in between. A Brazilian company, OAS, is doing the construction. The road is far from complete, but is already transforming commerce and daily life in the area. Travel time has been cut in half; fewer trucks are breaking down, so less food is spoiled; and farmers are planting more crops in anticipation of more dependable farm-to-market transportation.
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