IPC: Over 5.94 Million Haitians Face Acute Food Insecurity Through Early 2027

More than 5.94 million people in Haiti face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between September 2026 and February 2027, according to an IPC analysis published by ipcinfo.org. That figure represents roughly one in two people unable to regularly access sufficient food, an increase of 240,000 from the previous analysis. About 1.8 million people (16 percent of the population) are classified in Emergency (Phase 4), with 10 of the country's 30 analysis units in that category, including displacement sites and marginalized neighborhoods of metropolitan Port-au-Prince such as Cité Soleil, Croix-des-Bouquets and Tabarre. The report cites escalating armed violence, prolonged economic decline, rising food prices and El Niño-related climate shocks as key drivers. Around 1.49 million people have been displaced, straining host communities, while year-on-year inflation reached 17 percent in August 2026. The IPC projects conditions will worsen between March and June 2027, with 6.35 million people (57 percent of those analyzed) in Crisis or worse and nearly 2 million in Emergency. Four additional zones in Artibonite, the Southeast and the Northwest are expected to fall into Phase 4. The analysis warns that humanitarian assistance remains insufficient and calls for urgent, unimpeded expanded aid, according to ipcinfo.org.