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This work analyzes the management of agroecosystems in Haiti, mainly in Haut-Limbé, from a social, economic, and cultural perspective. This region is characterized by traditional agriculture divided into agroecological zones and by a plurality of agricultural crops and typical products. It covers 23.95 km2 with a predominance of relief of mountains and has its own agricultural, social, and cultural characteristics. Thus, interviews were conducted with 30 family farmers to distinguish at which level the social and economic life and the historical and cultural dynamics of the families have influences on the agroecosystems. The agricultural plots of the heads of families were located and measured using the GPS geolocation software Map Ruler (Android). The mapping tool (QGIS 3.10) was used to capture geographic data. We observed that farmers still maintain the agricultural practices of their ancestors for the management of agroecosystems, yet due to lack of support (technical assistance, agricultural bank, irrigation, unavailability of labor) their effort is insufficient to increase their output and keep a balanced means of production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, there has been an intensification of debates about the horizons of an agriculture capable of inform precepts of sustainability that extrapolate the merely economic dimension. Therefore, a set of organised actors claims to be protagonist. In each incursion in this precinct, different actors choose the most strategic way to provide robustness to their projects and intentionality: sometimes with a market trace, sometimes appealing for ecological consciousness/dimension, for ethical implications, and for health effects. Contradictorily, the "sustainable agriculture" can be the stronghold of the anti-capitalist struggle in that strengthening of relative farmer autonomy in territorial dispute against agribusiness. It can also enable the politicisation of ecology for food. Otherwise, it could strengthen the more advanced "sustainable development" of capital by exploiting the potential of its "green"/"organic" physiognomy. This demonstrates the exceptional capacity of resilience of the merchandise production system. Based upon research results, this paper explores some aspects of this complex reality and brings up to light the debate about potentialities of agroecology for the activation of peasant territorialities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]