# UN envoy to Yemen warns Hodeidah grain stocks at risk of rotting | The National

> UN envoy Martin Griffiths warned that 51,000 tonnes of UN wheat and milling equipment at Hodeidah's Red Sea Mills risk rotting without access. The stores could feed 3.7 million people for a month and have been inaccessible for over five months. Access is part of ongoing Yemen peace talks.

- Date: 2019-02-11 · published 2019-02-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: geopolitics · region Yemen · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/60491-un-envoy-to-yemen-warns-hodeidah-grain-stocks-at-risk-of-rotting-the-national
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Humanitarian food stocks in Yemen are small relative to global wheat trade, so the impact on world wheat prices is negligible; it mainly signals food-aid demand uncertainty.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: neutral

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## Sources

- thenationalnews.com: https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/un-envoy-to-yemen-warns-hodeidah-grain-stocks-at-risk-of-rotting-1.824382

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