Food Prices in Haiti

Things are really bad in Haiti but it is about to get worse. Forty percent of Haitians will face food insecurity by March 2020, according to a new report by OCHA.

In 2020, 4.6 million Haitians - about 40 per cent of the total population - will require urgent humanitarian assistance, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

Of the total figure, more than 57 per cent of people are women and 45.5 per cent are children.

The situation is expected to remain unstable in the coming months, which will further weaken the country's economy and, consequently, the ability of the poorest Haitians to meet their basic needs as well as the capacity of the State to provide essential services.

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Cost of living (La Vie Cher) in Haiti has been going up a ramp and some people say it is because of not just one but two main factors: The US Dollar that keeps going up in value non-stop and insecurity.

Nowadays, you need 94 to 95 Haitian gourdes to purchase one U.S. Dollar in Haiti. Considering that Haiti imports everything including most of the food Haitians consume, one can conclude how expensive the cost of living must be for a school teacher whose paycheck has stayed the same over the years.

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My cousin who cooks for us is complaining how expensive tomatoes have become in the local marketplace. 50 gourdes (USD $0.54) for 3 medium tomatoes.

Just a few months ago, tomatoes was selling 4 for 10 gourdes, then it suddenly jumped to 4 for 25 gourdes. Now it is 3 for 50 gourdes.

Imagine that, Tomatoes are just one of the ingredients that Haitians use everyday to cook. It make you wonder how much the the average Haitian spend to feed a family of four on a daily basis?

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With the Haitian currency having absolutely no value compared the the US dollar, the price of food in Haiti has gone up and up to an unacceptable level these days. Everyone is complaining.

Not only is the price of imported food gone up. Haitians from the countryside have raised the price of the food crops and livestocks they bring to market because they need more money to buy the goods they need to purchase to bring back home.

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The price of Spaghetti has gone up by 75% in Haiti. Haitians who love to cook and eat spaghetti will have to spend 35 gourdes per bag if they want to cook it at home.

The same bag of spaghetti sold for 20 gourdes less than a year ago according to my cousin who does all the cooking at the house.

An Kreyol

La fin du monde preske rive en Haiti... Yon sache spaghetti Arlequin ki te konn vann 20 goud, li te pase a 25 goud, jodi a li vann 35 goud.

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Something terrible is about to happen in Haiti! There is tension in the voice of virtually every Haitian you speak to these days. Most Haitians are worried about their tomorrow, literally, tomorrow!

The rising price of food, the value of the U.S. dollar that keeps going up and up compared to the Haitian currency the the few who are working are being paid.

In Haiti right now, it is almost as if a mega uprising is imminent in Haiti.

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Did you know... More than 80 percent of rice consumed in Haiti is imported and most of the rice consumed in Haiti comes from the United States. Haiti keeps importing more and more rice every year since 1986 despite the new government's promise to increase local rice production.

Over the past 25 years, local Haitian rice production has declined by 32 percent, the annual importation average of rice has grown 28 percent, and the national consumption or rice has increased on an average rate of 5% per year.

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If you want to eat healthy and loose weight at the same time, you have to eat fewer calories than your body uses. There's no better way to do that then to eat more fruits and vegetables. Lucky for us living in a province in Haiti, fruits and vegetables are cheap and plentiful, and organic.

In Haiti, you will not find all the vegetables you want to eat all the time but there is always some kinds of fruits and vegetables in season at the street markets (nan mache).

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Haitians simply love "Poule Peyi," the native Haitian chicken, but it seems to me like that Poulet Creole is becoming more and more expensive in the marketplace these days... Read this...

If you want to buy a poul peyi in Hinche, Haiti, the province where I live, you have to dish out 400 to 500 gourdes, almost double the price it was over a year ago.

That of course means the price of a dish of Haitian stewed chicken (Poulet Creole) at the local restaurant is more expensive as well.

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A World Food Programme (WFP) publication examined the true cost of a plate of food around the world and, can you believe, a simple meal in Haiti costs 60 times more than in New York. Read this, you will be shocked...

The first thing that came to mind when I read this was: No way! this is impossible because a Big Mac at a McDonald's in New York costs USD $3.99 but you can buy a plate of spaghetti in Haiti for 75 gourdes (about USD $1.17).

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