Due to the increasing inaccessibility of food and water in
Syria, people in tens of thousands are fleeing Syria for neighboring countries.
As revealed to NaijaAgroNet in a special
alert by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), there is
also fuel shortages which in turn have a great effect on transportation costs.
FAO made the alert as there has been civil unrest in Syria
since March 2011.
The World Food Programme (WFP) of United Nations affirmed an
estimation of about 1.4 million food insecure living in areas which have now
become conflicts hotspot in 2010.
WFP lists Homs, Hama, rural Damascus, Daraa and Idleb as
areas which are vulnerable in 2010 and are now more vulnerable as a result of
conflicts.
FAO and WFP are currently running an emergency operation providing
food aid and vouchers to 100 000 people in the country.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that some 300,000 small
farmers and herders in the north-eastern provinces had already suffered four
consecutive seasons of drought, and they are also affected by loss of
opportunities from seasonal labour migration within the country.
'Yinka Awosanya/LS
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