UN Warns Over 5.3 Million in Yemen Face Acute Food Insecurity

UN Warns Over 5.3 Million in Yemen Face Acute Food Insecurity
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Three United Nations agencies have issued a stark warning about a looming deterioration in food security across parts of Yemen, projecting that over 5.3 million people could face acute food insecurity between September 2025 and February 2026 without urgent intervention.

In a joint statement released Sunday, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and UNICEF cited declining humanitarian funding, economic stagnation, and soaring prices of essential goods as key drivers of the crisis.

The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) update indicates that approximately 4.95 million Yemenis are currently experiencing critical levels of food insecurity, including 1.5 million in emergency conditions. That number is expected to rise to 5.38 million—over half the population in the assessed areas.

Contributing factors include ongoing conflict, currency depreciation, climate shocks like droughts and floods, and agricultural threats such as desert locusts. Internally displaced people, rural households, women, and children are among the hardest hit. The agencies called for immediate, sustained funding and a scale-up in humanitarian response to avert a worsening disaster.