; Whereas screening of vulnerable groups shows evidence of high rates of malnutrition and the need for immediate special attention programs, especially for children under the age of 5; Whereas many displaced Haitians continue to live in temporary shelters, such as schools, churches, or shelters that have been pieced together with scrap aluminum sheets, tarps, and wood; Whereas schools in many areas still have not reopened since the Hurricane Matthew; Whereas between 80 to 90 percent of crops in the Grande Anse and South were destroyed by Hurricane Matthew and farmers have not yet received support for seeds and tools; Whereas only 48 percent of the United Nations $178,000,000 Flash Appeal for Haiti has been funded; Whereas a devastated agricultural sector has a ripple effect throughout the Haitian economy and affects the most vulnerable, particularly children and poor women and men; Whereas Haiti’s geographical location in the hurricane belt, acute ecological damage, rising sea levels, increasing global temperatures, severity of hurricanes, drought, and other forms of climate disruption combine to make Haiti one of the three most climate vulnerable countries in the world, with devastating consequences for all sectors of its economy and society; Whereas Haiti’s growing food insecurity results largely from deforestation and entrenched neglect of its rural agricultural sector, particularly smallholder farmers who grow most of the food in Haiti, and account for a large percentage of the food insecure populations; Whereas in 2016, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Global Food Security Index ranked Haiti’s food sector 108 out of 113 countries surveyed; Whereas Haiti’s vulnerability to natural disasters is rooted in the dearth of stable public infrastructure and housing due to rapid urbanization and is exacerbated by climate change