Freshly appointed at the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Natural Resources and Rural Development Haiti (MARNDR), agronomist engineer Marcelin Aubourg was installed in his new position on Wednesday, March 4, by the head of the Ministry of Economy and Finance Haiti (MEF), Serge Gabriel Collin, during a formal ceremony held at the premises of the Coordination Nationale de Sécurité Alimentaire (CNSA) in Delmas 83.

Specialized in rural engineering—a discipline essential for water management—and a former departmental agricultural director for the Sud Department, the new head of the MARNDR stated that, in the face of the humanitarian emergency, action cannot wait. Regarding the actions to be taken, Marcelin Aubourg outlined his priorities. “We have five structuring priorities that align with the government’s orientations in order to guarantee a concrete and measurable impact on the ground. Our defined roadmap falls within the framework of the governance pact for stability and the organization of elections,” he indicated.