About 10.6 million Yemenis are now severely
food insecure, of which 4.8 million are facing "emergency"
conditions, suffering from severe lack of food access, very high and increasing
malnutrition, and irreversible destruction of livelihoods, NaijaAgroNet reports.
NaijaAgroNET also gathered that escalating
conflict at a crucial time in the country’s cropping season, almost 11 million
people in Yemen are severely food insecure and millions more are at risk of not
meeting their basic food needs, FAO said today, 15th March, 2015.
According to FAO Representative for Yemen, Salah Hajj Hassan “We are entering a crucial period for crop production in Yemen and now, more than ever, agriculture cannot be an afterthought if we want to prevent more people from becoming food insecure amidst this crisis,”
According to FAO Representative for Yemen, Salah Hajj Hassan “We are entering a crucial period for crop production in Yemen and now, more than ever, agriculture cannot be an afterthought if we want to prevent more people from becoming food insecure amidst this crisis,”
NaijaAgroNet was also reliably
informed that in the organization's latest assessment, increasing conflict in
nearly all major towns across the country is disrupting markets and trade,
driving up local food prices and hampering agricultural production, including
land preparation and planting for the 2015 maize and sorghum harvests.
More than half of Yemen’s population –
some 16 million out of a total of 26 million— is in need of some form of
humanitarian aid and has no access to safe water.
The latest escalation of conflicts is expected to further increase food insecurity in the poverty-stricken country. Paradoxically, some 2.5 million food producers, including farmers, pastoralists, fishermen and agricultural wage labourers, are among those identified as food insecure, NaijaAgroNet learnt.
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The latest escalation of conflicts is expected to further increase food insecurity in the poverty-stricken country. Paradoxically, some 2.5 million food producers, including farmers, pastoralists, fishermen and agricultural wage labourers, are among those identified as food insecure, NaijaAgroNet learnt.
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