 Addressing the food crisis in Yemen: The private sector’s key role amid local conflict and global market disruptions from the Russia-Ukraine warSikandra Kurdi, Olivier Ecker, Joseph W. Glauber and David Laborde Debucquet Chapter 28 in The Russia-Ukraine conflict and global food security, 2023, pp 145-149 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Abstract: Since February 2022, meanwhile, the Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted global supplies of grains and other key agricultural products and driven global food prices higher. Yemen depends heavily on grain imports to feed a population long teetering on the edge of famine. Maintaining wheat flowing into the country and wheat products reaching consumers through private sector importers, processors, and distributors is a critical puzzle piece for managing food security.; The Yemen conflict, underway since early 2015, has led to an ongoing, unprecedented humanitarian emergency. Food needs far exceed current consumption levels, with 3.5 million pregnant or breastfeeding women and children under age five suffering from acute malnutrition and up to 19 million people affected by food insecurity in 2022. Keywords: market disruptions; shock; policies; war; coronavirus; covid-19; agriculture; malnutrition; markets; trade; coronavirinae; russia; food security; ukraine; conflicts; coronavirus disease; prices; climate change; Yemen; Middle East; Southwest Asia; Asia; Western Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fpr:ifpric:9780896294394_28 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in IFPRI book chapters from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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