WFP Says 74% of Surveyed Households in Parts of Yemen Cannot Meet Basic Food Needs
Archive: Taiz, Yemen, August 18, 2013. Geographic context; this photo does not document the current fighting, aid distribution, or displaced people. Rod Waddington / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0 . Source . Proportional display; no additional crop. WFP monitoring reported on October 2 found that 74% of surveyed households in accessible government-held areas of Yemen could not meet basic food needs. The agency warned that renewed fighting, displacement and disrupted aid routes could deepen the crisis. The agency described this as its highest recorded level in those areas that year. It also cited more than 149,000 displaced people, attributing the figure to the International Organization for Migration. The 74% applies to surveyed households in monitored areas, not every household in Yemen. Food prices and access to assistance The WFP says fighting has disrupted markets and aid access. In parts of Taiz, wheat flour prices rose 10% over two weeks, according to its update. Yemen impor...