FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOOD

A brief overview of the food security and livelihood situation in Yemen:

Yemen is still the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The country has become increasingly unstable since the conflict escalated dramatically in mid-March 2015, severely disrupting the economy, including the agriculture sector, collapsing essential services, and exhausting coping mechanisms. More than 20 million Yemeni are food insecure, including nearly 10 million who are on the brink of famine and starvation. Two-thirds of the districts in the country are already pre-famine. Millions of Yemenis engaged in agriculture lack access to critical inputs and are now at higher risk, and less able to cope, than at any stage of the conflict. Yemen is largely dependent on imports from international markets to satisfy domestic consumption, in addition to wheat its main staple. This is heavily impacting local agricultural production and marketing. As a consequence, the supply and distribution of locally produced food to the market is poor, causing devastating effects on livelihoods and the nutrition situation.

YDN food security and livelihood program interventions:

In the food security and livelihood sector, YDN seeks to increase the community’s opportunity to access food and help in emergency support projects by distributing food to the most vulnerable families in IPC phase 3 and 4 through achieving and supporting the FSAC response objective to help millions of destitute Yemenis to overcome hunger by providing food and nutrition assistance, increasing household incomes and advocating for measures that bring economic stability.

YDN focuses its attention on the food security and livelihood program through its projects and interventions in the field of agriculture, food, livestock, and other productive projects as the number of beneficiaries of its projects exceed 2 million. YDN conducts activities from the first line response like food and cash distribution and distribution of agriculture and livestock input.

YDN also plans to implement a new strategy in the response process and move from first-line response to second-line response and support livelihoods activities to achieve sustainability and prepare for the recovery phase.

Geographical Coverage:

(17) Governorates: Aden, Taiz, Shabwah, Al-Mahra, Al-Jawf, Marib, Hadhramout, Sana’a, Al-Bayda, Ibb, Abyan, Socotra, Saada, Amran, Al Dhale’e, Lahj, and Al-Mehwait.

An active partner in:

  • National & Sub FSL cluster.
  • MFB (Minimum food basket working group) and livelihood technical working group.

Summary of the food security and livelihood interventions:

More than 3,000,000 the total of the food security and livelihood program interventions beneficiaries

#PROJECTYEARNO. OF BENEFICIARIESTARGETED GOVERNORATE
1Distribution food baskets project202010700Aden, Taiz, Shabwa, Al-Mahra, Al-Jawf, IDPs in Sana'a and Marib
2Distribution 3000 tons of dates project2020375000
3Distribution of Food baskets project20201,166
HHs
13 Yemeni governoate
4Zakat Al-Fitr project2020195
HHs
Marib and IDPs
5Fasting breakfast project20203150Marib and IDPs
6Fasting breakfast project2020833
HHs
Marib and IDPs
7Distribution 20,000 cartons of dates project202020,000
HHs
Marib and IDPs
8Distribution of food for persons affected by flood project2020620
HHs
Aden, Taiz, Marib and IDPs
9Distribution of meat project2020198
HHs
Marib IDPs
10Kuwait relief convoy project20202,000
HHs
Marib IDPs
11Distribution of Food baskets project20206,707
HHs
Marib IDPs
12Relief convoy project2020250
HHs
Marib
13Distribution of Food baskets project20201,940
HHs
Shabwah
14Distribution of meat project20201,304
HHs
Shabwah
15IDPs relief project2020200
HHs
Hadramout
16Integrated Nutrition, Health and Food Project201878491Taiz and Ibb
17Integrated Emergency Nutrition, Health and food project20183835Taiz and Ibb
18Provision of services for the distribution of emergency livelihood inputs to the most vulnerable household in Al-Jawf governorate201811,640
HHs
Al Jawf
19Food Security Response for most vulnerable and affected households in Al Udayn district of Ibb governorate20181,500
Hhs
Ibb