Sidney-Max Etienne was selected as a Finalist in the Science Engagement category at the 2025 Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin, one of the world's most recognized forums for scientific and social breakthrough. Presenting alongside Nobel laureates, global policymakers, and innovators from over 600 institutions worldwide, Sidney brought Grown in Haiti's regenerative agroforestry model to an international stage, representing Haiti and the broader movement for community-led ecological restoration.

This Food & Wine and Bon Appétit Best Cookbook of 2024, written by Emmy Award-winning documentarian and food historian Von Diaz, travels across the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Ocean islands to document ancestral cooking techniques rooted in resistance, persistence, and ecological wisdom. Sidney-Max Etienne is featured as a Haitian environmentalist and regenerative farmer, connecting the work of Grown in Haiti to a broader conversation about food sovereignty, land stewardship, and the survival of traditional knowledge in tropical island communities on the frontlines of climate change.

In this op-ed, researchers Victoria Koski-Karell and Elio Dortilus trace Haiti's food insecurity to its colonial and imperial roots, documenting how U.S. trade policy and agricultural intervention have systematically undermined Haitian farmers and local food systems for decades. In the hills of Haiti's southeast, Grown in Haiti is cited as a living example of what it looks like when communities reclaim food sovereignty through regenerative land practice rather than waiting for outside solutions.

As part of the Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Sadaf Padder, Co-Director and Lead Fundraiser at Grown in Haiti, writes a wide-ranging intellectual essay proposing a framework for inclusive South Asian futurisms. Drawing on her time in the regenerative food forests of Cap Rouge, Padder weaves Grown in Haiti's work through the essay as a lived example of land as witness, healer, and future-builder. The piece connects ecological restoration to questions of diaspora, identity, and what it means to find belonging through the land.

In the wake of Haiti's 2021 earthquake, Vogue spotlights Grown in Haiti as a local, land-rooted response to crisis, one focused not on emergency relief alone but on the long-term healing of soil, communities, and food systems. The feature includes direct insights from Sidney-Max Etienne and Paula Hyppolite on regeneration, food justice, and what it looks like when recovery is led from within.

Sidney-Max Etienne joins the REV On Air podcast hosted by Rêve En Vert, a UK-based sustainable living platform, for a conversation about food security, regenerative agriculture, and community-led responses to Haiti's environmental crisis. The discussion covers how colonialist food systems have undermined Haitian farmers and what building local food sovereignty from the ground up actually looks like. The episode sits alongside conversations with voices like Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, reflecting the company this work keeps globally.

This short documentary captures the early years of Grown in Haiti's reforestation work in Cap Rouge, following Sidney-Max Etienne as he moves through the mountains with seeds, cuttings, and a vision for what the land could become. It is one of the earliest documented records of the work and offers a window into where it all began.