The soaring increase in food and oil prices has had an enormous impact on the Haitian population. Towards the end of 2007, UN agencies started recording increases in prices and alerting on possible consequences on the already weak coping mechanisms of the population. Even if Haiti is not the only country touched by the global food crisis, it is probably the least capable to compensate any external shock because of its dependence on imports, limited investments, low productivity and lack of social safety nets.