Publications

Guatemala and Haiti: Analysis of the impact of drought, May–July 2024
04/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO's) Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) conducted drought impact assessments in Guatemala and Haiti.

Sweden’s contribution to FAO’s emergencies operations, March 2025
03/2025
Sweden has reinforced its commitment to global food security with a total contribution of SEK 73 million (USD 7.23 million) to FAO’s emergencies operations in 2025.

Haiti: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 6
03/2025
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of the sixth-round assessment conducted in June and July 2024 in Haiti.

Haiti: Response overview, November 2024
12/2024
In Haiti, alarming levels of armed gang violence continue to trigger significant population displacement within the country and limit the circulation of goods, contributing to increased prices of basic foodstuffs.

FAO in the 2025 humanitarian appeals
12/2024
In 2024, escalating violence drove extreme hunger crises from Gaza and the Sudan to Haiti. The number of people facing, or projected to face, catastrophic hunger conditions more than doubled, rising from 705 000 in 2023 to 1.9 million people by mid-2024 across five countries/territories.

Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity, November 2024 to May 2025 outlook
10/2024
In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is projected to worsen in 16 hunger hotspots, including a total of 14 countries and two regional clusters which comprise 8 countries, during the outlook period from November 2024 to May 2025.

Haiti: Response Overview, August 2024
09/2024
In Haiti, the rise in armed gang violence, especially in the Metropolitan Area of Port-au-Prince, has led to significant population displacement within the country.

Contribution from the Government of Sweden to FAO: Annual report 2023
09/2024
In 2023, the Government of Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), contributed SEK 120 million (USD 13.08 million) to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Haiti: Addressing the increased needs of vulnerable populations affected by escalating violence
05/2024
Haiti is one of nine countries in the world facing the risk of famine and one of five countries with more than 10 percent of the population in Emergency (IPC Phase 4).

Haiti: Executive brief of the DIEM-Monitoring assessment, round 5 (January 2024)
04/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Data in Emergencies (DIEM) has launched an Executive brief series.

Haiti: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2024
02/2024
Agriculture is an increasingly vital lifeline for people in Haiti. Rising insecurity and low harvests have pushed food prices up.

Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity
10/2023
FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity: November 2023 to April 2024 outlook

Haiti: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 4
09/2023
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a fourth-round assessment conducted from May to July 2023 in Haiti.

Haiti: Response overview, April 2023
04/2023
According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis, nearly half of the population in Haiti is in high acute food insecurity (March–June 2023) – an increase compared with 4.7 million people projected in the September 2022 analysis.

Haiti: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 3
04/2023
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of a third-round assessment conducted between November and December 2022 in Haiti.

Haiti: Humanitarian Response Plan 2023
03/2023
Nearly half of the population in Haiti doesn’t have enough to eat, including for the first time ever 19 200 people in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5).

Monitoring food security in food crisis countries with conflict situations
12/2022
This report provides an update on the acute food insecurity in countries and territories that have the world’s highest burden of people in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance as a result of protracted conflict combined with other factors.

Enhancing nutrition in emergency and resilience agriculture responses to prevent child wasting: FAO's child wasting prevention action plan (2023–2024)
11/2022
As part of the United Nations Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, FAO requires USD 500 million to implement its action plan to prevent child wasting (2023–2024) in the 15 most-affected countries.

Haiti: Response overview
10/2022
In Haiti, sociopolitical unrest, economic decline, violence perpetrated by armed groups, low agricultural production, rising food and fuel prices, and frequent natural disasters have led to increased levels of food insecurity.