The study provides an analysis for the period from September 2025 to February 2026 and a projection for March to June of next year.
Emergency levels
A staggering 1.9 million – or 17 percent of the population – are suffering emergency levels of acute food insecurity, leaving them with food deficits, high acute malnutrition and excessive mortality rates.
Another 3.8 million people (or 34 percent of the population) face critical levels of acute food insecurity, meaning they may be forced to exhaust essential livelihoods just to meet their basic nutritional needs.
Conditions are expected to worsen
The CPI expects food security to deteriorate further between March and June 2026 relative to the lean season, a period between harvests when food supplies tend to be low and prices high.
More than half of the population (54 percent) is expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity.
The situation is aggravated by the increasing control of territory by armed groups and the country’s declining economy, which has caused mass displacement and the destruction of livelihoods.
In regions controlled by armed groups, farmers who have managed to continue carrying out agricultural activities are forced not only to negotiate access to plots of land but also to share their products, says the IPC.
Additionally, households in gang-occupied regions that relied on small businesses have been forced to abandon their sources of income and many people have lost their jobs after businesses closed.
Emergency intervention needed
Despite the support of humanitarian actors, Haitians face overcrowding, characterized by precarious living conditions and lack of sanitation facilities, according to the IPC.
This increases the likelihood of sexual violence, spread of diseases such as cholera, and psychological distress for the displaced, who already lack adequate access to clean water, food, and adequate medical care.
To alleviate the crisis, the CPI recommends emergency intervention to prevent the poorest households from resorting to harmful coping strategies and an expansion of already existing social protection programs, among other actions.