The food security situation in Yemen is currently unstable. Currently, staple cereals are generally available mainly (>90%) from the market imported outside of the country.
- 46% (10,507,526) people are food insecure among which 24% (5,449,916) people are under Emergency (IPC Phase 2) and 22% (5,057,610) people in Crisis (IPC Phase 3).
- More than 44.5% of the households food consumption is poor and on the borderline.
- 42% of households has low diversity of food consumed.
- Half a million people are internally displaced among which 335,415 are from North and 209,895 from South corridor. The continued episode of displacement further aggravated the food and livelihoods insecurity of the victims and resident host communities.
- Although difficult to ascertain, due to absence of climatic information, the FEWS net remote sensing information shows that the season rainfall situation was near average for some governorates.
- The continued depletion of the ground water resources is increasing aridity and reducing the economic prospects, making the population more vulnerable to food and livelihood insecurity.
- The general consumer price index during the month has increased compared to the previous period. The global food prices continues increase will affect the supply as well as affordability of the staple food items at local markets of Yemen.
- Moreover, the TOT for wage and animals against wheat, in June 2012, has deteriorated in many areas except few locations which compromised the purchasing power of the poor and access to staple food commodities.
Recommendations for Next Steps for Analysis and Decision Making
The proposed way forward was as follows;
- Disseminate the IPC product at FSAC coordination, inter-cluster coordination, HCT communication mechanisms (mid August 2012).
- National level government and donor meeting on last week of August 2012
- Share with key decisions makers at various administrative levels for feedback on their decision making needs: September 2012
- Identify data gaps in the information system and define workable recommendation September/October 2012
- Conduct selective analysis in a high priority governorates and update the IPC October 2012.
- Conduct data collection, collation, analysis and interpretation capacity of FSAC stakeholders: on-going
- Conduct stakeholders analysis and mapping by governorate and establish ground for decentralized data collection and analysis : November2012
- Discuss funding opportunities for sustainable food security information collection and management system , September-October 2012