International organization warns of collapse of food security in Yemen

WORLD, Aug 28 (YPA) – The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), which monitors famine around the world, has warned of a worsening food insecurity crisis in Yemen, explaining that the crisis will be “severe” over the next few months.

In a recent report, ESCR-Net Amid assistance cuts, Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Crisis! (IPC Phase 3!) outcomes are expected to remain widespread through January 2024, with an estimated 50-55 percent of the population in need of food assistance.

Over the course of the projection period, needs are expected to decline slightly in areas controlled by the Sanaa-based authorities (SBA) alongside improvement in income-earning opportunities and stable purchasing power.

It stated that Yemen will witness a nationwide food insecurity early next year “according to the third phase of the integrated classification”, which it called the “crisis”, during which Yemeni families will suffer in providing food, adding to the higher rates of acute malnutrition than usual.

The FEWS NET explained that the acute food insecurity crisis in Yemen makes it top the list of 22 countries around the year suffering from food crises.

It attributed the causes of this crisis to “limited livelihood options and prices of above-average basic foodstuffs”.

Yemen remains one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, according to United Nations reports.

E.M