Price Monitoring and Analysis Country Brief: Haiti, January-April 2011
Summary: EU-funded, FAO-prepared price monitoring brief for Haiti under the Food Security Information for Decision Making program, covering January-April 2011. It reports that food prices continued an upward trend since December 2010, with nominal local rice prices approaching 2008 levels, and describes a worsening food security situation for poor households in regions hit by 2010 weather shocks, compounded by socio-political uncertainty and the cholera epidemic, with an estimated 3 million people requiring food aid during the lean season.
Key Findings
- The January-April 2011 price brief says prices had continued upward since December 2010 and stayed very high in early 2011, with nominal local rice prices approaching 2008 levels.
- The brief estimates that 3 million people required food aid during the lean season, with poor and very poor households in weather-shock areas especially affected.
- Port-au-Prince local rice prices rose 5 percent from December to April to 91.88 gourdes per kg, while imported rice prices rose 20 percent from December to January before falling to 40.42 gourdes per kg in April.
- Jacmel local rice prices rose 10 percent to 121.27 gourdes per kg in April, while imported rice stayed high at 50.54 gourdes per kg.
- The food balance section says 2010 crop production suffered from the earthquake, Hurricane Tomas and the cholera outbreak, and that Artibonite and southwest rice harvests due in April-May were expected to be 20 to 30 percent below average.
- Total production was 502,000 tonnes, 9 percent below 2009 output and 8 percent below average, while 2010-2011 import requirements were put at 636,000 tonnes.
How to cite
European Union; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Price Monitoring and Analysis Country Brief: Haiti, January-April 2011, https://reliefweb.int/attachments/97c0dc03-1e5c-3872-9e2d-0d8be4b82ee0/Full_Report.pdf