Chronic Poverty and Gang Violence Drive Surging Food Insecurity and Displacement Crisis
Months of rampant gang violence in Haiti has intensified one of the world’s worst hunger crises, according to a new report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) committee, an independent committee of food security and nutrition experts from the United Nations, governments and NGOs, including Action Against Hunger.
Across the country, hunger has gotten worse — largely driven by instability and armed gangs – with nearly 6,000 Haitians facing famine-like conditions (IPC Phase 5), approximately 2 million in an emergency situation (IPC Phase 4), and 30% of the population – around 3.4 million people – in crisis (IPC Phase 3). (See this graphic for further explanations of IPC levels of hunger.)
