Emergency (IPC Phase 4) results expected in four provinces as food aid cuts
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Due to insufficient funding, WFP has announced further drastic cuts to Yemen’s emergency food aid levels. All beneficiaries are expected to receive only a 50% ration in the coming months. Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Crisis! Consequences of (IPC Phase 3!) are expected to continue to be far-reaching, with more severe emergencies (IPC Phase 4) in Hajjah, Malibu, Raj and Abian during the agricultural off-season from August to October. is expected to appear. In these governorates, household purchasing power will simultaneously decline, seasonally restricted access to food and income in low-lying areas, and reduced food aid will either create large gaps in food consumption for many households or Emergency coping strategies should be used. By November, most of these areas are likely to return to crisis and improve. (IPC Phase 3!), based on the assumption that many poor households will have more food and income sources once the grain and fruit/vegetable harvests begin. However, the state of emergency (IPC Phase 4) is likely to persist in Malibu until January, given the sizeable number of displaced households that are heavily dependent on humanitarian assistance.
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Earning opportunities remain very limited in Yemen despite the recent reduction in levels of conflict, and households’ purchasing power continues to decline as the prices of food and non-food essentials rise further. I’m here. Yemen is heavily dependent on imports for its food supply and previously sourced most of its staple wheat from Ukraine. Since the invasion, traders have struggled to source wheat from alternative suppliers. Regions managed by the IRG are reported to be out of stock. Localized shortages are possible over the next three months until additional supplies arrive.
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Higher global fuel and food prices, disrupted supply chains for imported food products as traders struggled to source wheat from alternative suppliers, and currency depreciation in IRG-controlled areas led to IRG Domestic prices of basic groceries increased in both the and SBA. Controlled area in June 2022 after a slight decrease in late April and May. According to FAO price data, the average price of imported flour in June 2022 was 30 percent higher than the same period last year in SBA-controlled regions and 61 percent higher than the same period last year in IRG-controlled regions.