The update came in a release from the World Food Program on Friday (wfp), which is working with the government and partners to assist 2.7 million people in Haiti by providing emergency food aid, school meals, social protection programs, and support to small farmers.
“These small improvements in food security numbers should not lead to complacency,” warned Vanja Caria, country director of WFP Haiti. “Increased fuel prices and the resulting increase in food costs threaten to wipe out these gains, pushing already vulnerable households into crisis and further destabilizing the situation.”
For nearly a decade, Haiti has experienced an ever-deepening food security crisis, driven by violence related to armed groups, political turmoil, an economic crisis, and high levels of vulnerability to extreme weather, such as Hurricane Melissa, which hit the south in late 2025.
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Aid is distributed by the World Food Program to neighborhoods in the city of Port-au-Prince.
WFP is calling for stronger measures and funding to provide emergency relief and invest in long-term solutions to address food insecurity affecting more than one in two Haitians. “Tackling hunger is critical to restoring stability in Haiti,” Ms. Caria said. “We cannot have peace when families have nothing to feed their children.”
WFP needs $332 million to sustain its vital operations over the next 12 months and, if sufficient funding is secured, plans to deliver critical emergency and resilience-building assistance to more than 2.7 million people. The $880 million humanitarian response plan for Haiti is less than 20 percent funded, with only $172 million received.
Violence and displacement spread across the country
Armed attacks earlier this week have displaced hundreds of people from the South-East department. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 1,300 people were displaced by violence in the Marigot municipality on 13 April.
IOM says this is the first time that displacement of this scale, directly linked to armed attacks, has been recorded in the South-East department, a region that previously served as a reception area for people displaced by violence elsewhere in the country. More than 165,000 men, women and children are currently privately hosted throughout the Department.
The conflict has displaced more than 1.4 million people in Haiti, resulting in approximately 300,000 living in overcrowded and unsanitary temporary shelters in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
