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Dr. Abdul Wahed Othman Mukred - Head of Food Security Technical Secretariat, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Sana'a, Yemen
Yemen suffers from the worst humanitarian crisis in the world since the conflict began in March 2015. The ... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Francesco Di Bona - MA in Development Economics and International Studies, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
In crisis and conflict contexts, food assistance is used as a main form of humanitarian aid. Food insecurity can be tackled directly through food basket transfers or school feeding programmes, or indirectly through cash or voucher transfers, with the latter that can be redeemed in supermarkets. Lately, cash transfers have been on the rise as a humanitarian food aid measure. The World Food Programme (WFP) has been [...] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Lina Abdelfattah – IFPRI
This is a summary of a regional program policy note published by IFPRI titled “Yemen: Economy-wide impact of conflict and alternative scenarios for recovery”. [...] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Scaling Up Nutrition Yemen
Heidi Kandil, IFPRI Intern
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen remains the worst in the world. Nearly five years of conflict and severe economic decline are driving the country to the brink of famine and exacerbating needs in all sectors. An estimated 80 per cent of the population – 24 million people – require some form of humanitarian assistance, including 14.3 million who are in acute need. Severity of need is deepening, with the number of people in acute need reaching 27 per cent higher than last year. Two-thirds of all districts in the country are already pre-famine, and one-third face a convergence of multiple acute vulnerabilities. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Sikandra Kurdi and Olivier Ecker - IFPRI
Children are often most affected by civil conflict. The ongoing civil war in Yemen, now entering its fifth year, is the most severe example of a man-made humanitarian crisis with devastating child suffering in recent history. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
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