Haiti: WFP VAM Bulletin – Food Security Analysis, April 2024 – Haiti

Around 8.5 million people were estimated to have insufficient food consumption in Haiti in March 2024 (prevalence rate of 72%). While the situation had slightly improved between October 2023 and January 2024, the ratios of households with insufficient food consumption increased steadily throughout the first quarter of 2024, reaching peak values at the end.

An increase in the cost of the household food basket in the first quarter of 2024 (+21% between January and mid-April 2024), coupled with a declining availability of essential food commodities, gradually erodes households’ purchasing power at a time when the demand keeps rising in anticipation of intensifying security incidents.

After the Cash Working Group in Haiti updated the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) in February 2024, an affordability analysis estimated that nine out of ten Haitians will not be able to afford their essential needs in the next two months.

Escalating violence continue to affect food security and to challenge humanitarian assistance: mostly contained in the capital of Port-au-Prince, violent events in the first quarter of 2024 have intensified, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee to other departments or to IDP sites in PAP in the last month.

Rainfall conditions during the dry season (December to March) were relatively close to average, but have worsened in March with most of the country showing rainfall deficits, at a time when land preparation and planting for the main growing season are starting. Forecast data tend to predict wetter-than-average conditions in the three coming months.