Haiti: Joint Advocacy Note, December 2024 - Urgently Improving the Food Security of People Affected by an Unprecedented Humanitarian Crisis
Summary: Joint FAO-WFP advocacy note warning that hunger in Haiti has reached a new historic peak, with nearly one Haitian in two in acute food insecurity, an increase of more than 1.3 million people classified in IPC Phase 3 or above since 2020. It attributes the deterioration to indiscriminate violence by organized criminal groups compounding economic and climate shocks, and calls on the international community and donors to substantially increase humanitarian financing for food security, particularly for displaced people and their host communities.
Key Findings
- The December 2024 FAO-WFP joint advocacy note says Haiti's hunger crisis has reached a historic peak.
- Nearly one Haitian in two is in acute food insecurity, with more than 1.3 million additional people in IPC Phase 3 or worse since 2020.
- The crisis is driven by organized-crime violence, displacement, market disruption, economic shocks, inflation, weak agricultural production and climate hazards.
- FAO and WFP warn that humanitarian food-security funding is far below needs and that delayed action will raise costs and risks to lives and livelihoods.
- The note prioritizes emergency food assistance, emergency food production, integrated social protection, livelihood restoration, protection of agricultural value chains and youth economic alternatives.
- Projected IPC results show further deterioration without adequate assistance, including more than two million people in Emergency or worse in March-June 2025.
How to cite
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); World Food Programme (WFP), Haiti: Joint Advocacy Note, December 2024 - Urgently Improving the Food Security of People Affected by an Unprecedented Humanitarian Crisis, https://reliefweb.int/attachments/d1796504-c452-4d71-b516-3259149ff471/cd3725fr.pdf