Haiti faces enormity of security issues within a backdrop of natural disasters, disease and potential civil war.
A new UN report has warned nearly 5 million people in Haiti face food insecurity. A new analysis published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says more than half the country’s population face acute food insecurity.
The integrated food security phase classification analysis (IPC) that nearly 2 million people are nearing the “emergency-level phase of need.”
The report offers a frightening insight into the lengths many Haitians endure in order to evade hunger. The UN said: “This means that households face large food consumption gaps resulting in high acute malnutrition and excess mortality, or are forced to adopt negative coping mechanisms to cover food needs, such as selling their productive assets or consuming seeds instead of planting them, increasing their vulnerability.”
Seventy-five percent of Haitians live in rural areas making it harder for authorities to distribute aid. An article published by the FAO stated that: “socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are compounded by the war in Ukraine, the cholera outbreak and the impact of extreme events such as hurricanes, floods and earthquakes.”
How does the United Nations plan to help?
According to the UN, they aim to invest $125 million into a market-gardening seed package which will generate “20 times its value in the production of vegetables” to offer families a way to harvest food and generate income.
The forum is asking the international community for $61.7 million to help more than 700,000 people worldwide in hunger hotspots around the world.
Mali, Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Haiti have been earmarked as greatest concern, with potential to be assisted first.
Stanisland Magazine 
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