World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

For six months after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, WFP maintained this crisis page, which collected a wide range of information on the operation and provided an overview of the hunger response. The page is no longer being maintained and so some of the information on it will be out of date. The page remains for archive purposes only.

• As WFP moves beyond emergency food assistance to a longer-term food security strategy, the focus will be on investing in Haiti’s human capital.
• This new strategy includes boosting local agriculture production and supporting local markets across the country as well as providing safety nets for the most vulnerable
• WFP is implementing programmes with the Government and other partners: cash and food for work projects to support agricultural rehabilitation, local procurement to stimulate the markets, warehousing to support food storage and feeder roads to get products to markets. WFP is also providing nutrition programmes, meals for school aged children and school feeding in food insecure areas.
• WFP is working closely with the Haitian authorities to prepare for the hurricane season, with measures including the prepositioning of food, trucks and other supplies for the humanitarian community in each district of the country.
• Despite the world’s generosity, WFP still urgently needs cash contributions for the Emergency Operation in order to implement cash and food for work projects planned in April, as well as support for its logistics work on behalf of the wider humanitarian community.

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points of interest

• Effects of earthquake
• Humanitarian corridors and logistics
• Road conditions in Port-au-Prince
• Damage in Port-au-Prince (satellite)
• Affected population
• Port-au-Prince area (detailed)
• Epicentres and transport networks