Haiti Market Analysis (USAID Office of Food for Peace)
- Finds local production covers only 12 percent of rice consumption against 70 percent for beans and about 92 percent for maize, which is what determines whether food aid can be bought locally without moving prices.
- Records agriculture at about 25 percent of GDP in 2008, down from 40 percent in the 1990s.
- Puts traditional export crops, mainly coffee, cacao, mangoes and essential oils, at six percent of national exports.
- Values earthquake damage to the agricultural sector at 34.3 million dollars, of which 69 percent is MARNDR office buildings and 23 percent lost crop production.
- Works from an exchange rate of 39.75 gourdes to the dollar as of July 2, 2010, and an earthquake toll of an estimated 217,000 killed and 300,000 injured.
The study was done by the Bellmon Estimation Studies for Title II team of Fintrac in June and July 2010, after the January earthquake, to inform food aid decisions. It reviews the agricultural sector and food aid policy, then analyzes six commodity markets: rice, beans, maize, wheat, oil and sorghum. Local production covers 12 percent of rice consumption, 70 percent of beans and about 92 percent of maize. Agriculture was about 25 percent of GDP in 2008, down from 40 percent in the 1990s, and earthquake damage to agriculture is valued at US$34.3 million. Later chapters give market profiles, an analysis of local and regional procurement, guidelines for distribution that avoid production disincentives and market disruption, and a monetization analysis by commodity. It uses an exchange rate of 39.75 gourdes to the dollar as of July 2, 2010.
How to cite
United States Agency for International Development (USAID); Fintrac, 2010, Haiti Market Analysis (USAID Office of Food for Peace), accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/usaid-ffp-2010-haiti-market-analysis