WFP VAM Market Monitoring, August 2025: Haiti

The World Food Programme's Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping unit publishes this market monitoring bulletin for Haiti. This edition covers August 2025.

The national food basket cost 24,203 gourdes in August, 2 percent more than the 23,784 recorded in July. Against August 2024 the cost was 10 percent lower, which the bulletin attributes to better food availability following the third maize and rice harvest. The national decline did not hold everywhere: Nippes, the South and the South-East recorded rises of up to 4 percent on the back of local commodity prices.

In the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area the basket cost 25,349 gourdes, down from 25,875 in July but still more than 5 percent above the national average, which the bulletin reads as continued pressure on urban purchasing power. Across monitored commodities prices were mostly stable or falling; rice, up 9 percent, and vegetable oil were the exceptions.

Availability across surveyed markets was generally satisfactory. Red beans were again the exception, scarce or unavailable particularly in Nippes, the North and the North-West. Traders held on average 12 days of stock, enough to meet household demand until the next restocking, with higher stocks reported in the Centre, the West and the North-West. Twenty-four percent of traders reported a stockout during the month, mostly of beans, and cited lack of liquidity to finance restocking as the main constraint. Road blockages and extortion continued to disrupt the flow of goods between departments.

For a fourth consecutive month staple food prices were relatively stable across most departments, supported by improved availability of locally produced goods.