# Hunger and Hope in Yemen - World Food Program USA

> The World Food Programme documents a hunger crisis in Yemen, where two-thirds of the population, about 18 million people, are food insecure and eight million are close to famine. WFP says it needs to scale up assistance to reach them.

- Date: 2018-08-13 · published 2018-08-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: geopolitics · region Yemen · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/63424-hunger-and-hope-in-yemen-world-food-program-usa
- Commodities: [Ocean Grain Freight](https://feedsoft.ai/c/OCEANFRT.md)

## Why it matters

Humanitarian food aid demand in Yemen is a small, non-commercial factor with no meaningful effect on global feed grain prices.

## Sources

- wfpusa.org: https://wfpusa.org/news/hunger-and-hope-in-yemen/

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