Poverty and Malnutrition in Haiti: Findings from Sud and Grand’Anse Departments

The 62-page report combines desk research on literature, project documents and policy reports with analysis of the 2017 Haiti Demographic and Health Survey to examine the determinants of poverty and child malnutrition in the Sud and Grand'Anse departments. The 2019 Global Hunger Index ranks Haiti 111th of 117 countries, with 21.9 percent of children under five stunted and 3.7 percent wasted. Grand'Anse is the poorest department, with 70 percent of its population in the bottom two wealth quintiles compared with 50 percent in Sud. Nationally 50.7 percent of people are moderately or severely food insecure, 46.4 percent in Sud and 77.9 percent in Grand'Anse. About 41 percent of households in Sud and 39 percent in Grand'Anse are headed by women. Chapters cover politics, land, environment, climate and disasters, gender, youth, agricultural production, market access, staple foods and lessons from food security and nutrition programs.