A World Bank mission began a four-day visit on Tuesday, November 3, to review two agriculture projects it funds in Haiti's Grand Sud, Vant Bèf Info reported. The delegation was received by the South department's agriculture directorate.

The programs are PARSA (Resilient Agriculture for Food Security) and TPR II (Resilient Productive Territories II). Agriculture Minister Marcelin Aubourg welcomed the experts with PARSA's central coordinator, Gérald Neuvième, and the team is to visit several departments to assess progress on the ground.

Aubourg asked for the projects' contingent emergency response component to be activated to free up extra money after heavy rains from October 23 to 26 left five people dead and five missing in the Grand Sud and damaged crops. Planned work includes handing out farm inputs, rehabilitating irrigation systems and repairing rural tracks.

Diego Arias, representing the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean, said the bank intends to keep working with the Haitian state to raise production and make rural households more resilient to climate shocks. He encouraged the minister to seek longer-term structural financing beyond emergency responses.

The visit comes as 5.94 million people, 53% of the population analyzed, face acute food insecurity, a figure that could reach 6.35 million between March and June 2027, according to the latest IPC analysis. The report gave no funding amounts or beneficiary numbers for either project.