This paper investigates and provides insights on the role played by social capital in the post-disaster recovery of the coffee-farming households of Jeremie, Haiti - after the 2016 Hurricane Matthew. Basically, Matthew landed on the Southern Peninsula of that Caribbean Island on the 4th and 5th of October 2016, killed several hundreds of people and caused important damage on the infrastructure and vegetation. Social capital, being considered as a means of accessing resources embedded in social ties in the context of informal support in period of post-disaster recovery, purportedly played a role in the post-disaster recovery of those households.
So, the objective of this research is to investigate the role of social capital in the post-disaster recovery of the coffee-farming households of Jeremie after the 2016 hurricane Matthew. A survey with a sample of thirty (30) coffee-farming household heads was conducted during two days. The survey questionnaire entailed several characteristics such as : socio-economics and demographics, their experiences and farming diversification, the resources they had at their disposal and their level of recovery. A mixed-method framework was employed based on qualitative and quantitative approach to conduct this research. The measuring instrument capture the role in the sense that the highest percentage of our sample revealed that after the hurricane they could find financial means to rebound, from their friends, family members living abroad (remittance), and from local informal financiers (usurers, loan sharks). The first assistance they received during the emergency period, such as rescue, shelters, money, foods and water, and other goods, came from their neighbors as well. Our statistical hypothesis test, curiously enough, went on the assumption that agricultural diversification was also a relatively significant factor in their recovery.
Overall, mutual support and sharing were the linchpin in the process of that community’s post-disaster recovery efforts, per our respondents ; which amounts to saying that bridging social capital played a key role in the first stage of the hurricane, linking social capital came a few days after, during the relief period, and to a lesser extent, bonding social capital came afterward.

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