Haiti IPC Acute Food Insecurity Overview: September 2026 to June 2027

The overview reports that Haiti's food crisis is worsening, driven by escalating armed violence, population displacement, a prolonged economic decline, rising food prices and El Niño climate shocks. More than 5.94 million people face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) from September 2026 to February 2027, 240,000 more than in the previous IPC analysis. About 1.8 million people, 16 percent of the population, are in Emergency (Phase 4). Ten of the country's 30 analysis units are classified in Phase 4, including displacement sites and vulnerable groups in disadvantaged neighborhoods of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area (Croix-des-Bouquets and Tabarre, Port-au-Prince and Cité Soleil) and several areas of Artibonite, Grand'Anse, Nippes, Nord-Ouest and Sud.

The document links the deterioration to armed violence, which it says has displaced about 1.49 million people since August 2026 and disrupted markets, farming and humanitarian access; to the economic decline and inflation, 17 percent year on year in August 2026; and to climate risk from the 2026-2027 El Niño episode, with Artibonite, Grand'Anse and Nord-Ouest most exposed to lower production. For March to June 2027 it projects 6.35 million people, 57 percent of those analyzed, in Phase 3 or above, with nearly 2 million in Phase 4, and four more areas of Artibonite, Sud-Est and Nord-Ouest moving to Phase 4. Humanitarian food assistance is expected to continue with reduced coverage and rations, and the document calls for expanded, unimpeded assistance and investment in livelihood recovery. It lists the analysis partners.