World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Overview

Yemen is facing an increasingly complex and deteriorating humanitarian situation that is leaving many families in a hunger trap and absolute poverty. Exacerbated by political and civil unrest since January 2011, new shocks to the already critically food insecure country have put more than half of the country’s population of 24 million at risk. Soaring food and fuel prices and the breakdown of social services have meant that the thousands of people who were on the brink of food insecurity and malnutrition before 2011 have now been pushed into more critical circumstances, widening the hunger gap.