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GIEWS Special Alert No. 335 - Yemen

The Humanitarian Emergency Worsens as Conflict EscalatesThe 2015 Cropping Season in Jeopardy

Year of publication 2015

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Newsletter

Series title GIEWS Updates

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Conflict escalation and displacements resulted in serious disruptions in market, trade and livelihood activities, exacerbating the already precarious food insecurity situation in the country. The 2015 cropping season has coincided with the escalation of the conflict thus compromising the outcome. More than half of Yemen’s population (61 percent out of 25.9 million people) is estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance.

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