Haiti Rural Livelihood Zone Profiles
- FEWS NET's 2015 rural livelihood profiles define Haiti's livelihood-zone map and describe rural food and income systems.
- The publication identifies eight rural livelihood zones and one urban zone.
- It applies the Household Economy Approach to compare food sources, income sources, expenditures, seasonal calendars, hazards, coping strategies and key monitoring parameters by wealth group.
- Rural livelihoods vary sharply between dry maize-charcoal coast, northern tuber-horticulture, Central Plateau maize-tubers, Artibonite rice plain, Arcahaie banana plain, western vegetables-beans, southern beans-bananas-small trade and southwest maize-manioc-gathering zones.
- Poor households in several zones depend heavily on agricultural labour, migration, petty trade, charcoal or wood sales and market purchases of food.
- The profiles provide baseline data for food-security monitoring, including minimum kilocalorie needs, market access, production seasons, hazard exposure and parameters to track shocks.
Published by FEWS NET in March 2015, this document carries the national livelihood zone map for Haiti and a profile of each zone. The zoning names each area by what its households actually live on: dry coastal maize and charcoal, northern tubers and horticulture, Plateau Central maize and tubers, the Artibonite rice plain, the Arcahaie banana plain of the West, western market gardening and beans, southern beans, banana and petty trade, and southwestern coastal maize, cassava and gathering, with a ninth urban zone. Livelihood zoning is the framework that makes food security analysis spatially specific, since a drought or price shock affects a charcoal-and-maize coast differently from a rice plain. NOTE: the zone codes in this document run HT01 to HT09 and denote LIVELIHOOD ZONES, not the ISO department codes of the same form used elsewhere in this corpus.
How to cite
Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET); United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2015, Haiti Rural Livelihood Zone Profiles, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Haiti-Pofils-des-moyens-dexistence-en-milieu-rural-version-finale.pdf