The current crisis is causing an accelerated deterioration in food consumption and leading to a 6-percentage-point increase in the proportion of households with poor food consumption, rising from 36% to 42% in just one month, compared to an annual variation of +8%. The municipalities of Port-au-Prince, Carrefour, and Delmas are the most severely affected, reveals a study by the World Food Programme (WFP).

More than 8 out of 10 households have experienced moderate or severe hunger on the household hunger scale, with an alarming concentration in the municipalities of Cité Soleil (90%), Croix-des-Bouquets (89%), and Port-au-Prince (91%).

67% of households now eat only one meal a day (61% in November 2024), or even skip entire days without eating. This proportion reaches 73% among displaced persons...

Exacerbated by massive displacement with a high intention to migrate (more than 60% of households, although unplanned due to the crisis) and acute food insecurity : 89% of internally displaced persons have insufficient food consumption (poor and borderline), 20% more than non-displaced persons.

The cost of the food basket increased by 6%, reaching 26,585 Haitian gourdes for a family of five, particularly in Delmas and Pétion-Ville. Increases of 2% in Carrefour and Cité Soleil, and 3% in Tabarre, were also observed between the end of February and March.

Volatile prices of basic foodstuffs, marked by significant increases ranging from 8% to 20% for essential products such as rice and sugar, and 13% for wheat flour in Delmas.

Only 6% of households report having received general humanitarian assistance.

HL/ HaitiLibre