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Charcoal is one of the population's main consumables.
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Once the pearl of the caribbean,
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Haiti can no longer feed its population without foreign aid.
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On the hills of haiti, only two percent of the forests are left.
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Stripped bare, the soil no longer absorbs the rainwater.
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With no vegetation and no roots to reinforce them,
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Nothing holds the soils back.
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The rainwater washes them down the hillsides as far as the sea.
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Erosion impoverishes the quality of the soils,
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Reducing their suitability for agriculture.
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In some parts of madagascar, the erosion is spectacular.
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Whole hillsides bear deep gashes hundreds of meters wide.