Haiti: Executive Brief of the DIEM-Monitoring Assessment, Round 5 (January 2024)
Summary: Fifth round of FAO's DIEM household survey in Haiti, covering 1,974 households across all ten departments through computer-assisted telephone interviews between 7 December 2023 and 20 January 2024. It finds livelihoods increasingly at risk from the combined effects of El Niño-related dry conditions and a further upsurge in political unrest and gang violence, particularly in Artibonite, Centre and Ouest, disrupting transport of goods and people. Livestock producers and households depending on casual farm labor were identified as the most food-insecure groups.
Key Findings
- The January 2024 DIEM assessment covered all ten departments and 1,974 households through telephone interviews conducted from 7 December 2023 to 20 January 2024.
- Political unrest and gang violence continued to affect households, especially in Artibonite, Centre and Ouest, disrupting transport, causing displacement, and likely affecting agricultural production and sales indirectly.
- Severe acute food insecurity was widespread, with Artibonite, Centre, Grand'Anse and Nord-Ouest the most impacted departments and the HT04 rice production basin the most affected livelihood zone within Artibonite.
- El Nino conditions since mid-2023 induced below-average rainfall across most of the country, and lack of irrigation water affected 46 percent of crop producers.
- Crop-producing households exposed to violence reported more production difficulties than those not exposed, 81 percent against 75 percent, and more sales difficulties, 60 percent against 44 percent.
- Households relying mainly on farm labour faced the most severe food insecurity and almost half did not engage in any agricultural activity over the last year.
How to cite
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Haiti: Executive Brief of the DIEM-Monitoring Assessment, Round 5 (January 2024), https://reliefweb.int/attachments/87cec12d-1efe-49c2-ab9d-7e5a1b20670f/cd0293en.pdf