Global Food Security Update, Issue 18 April-June 2015
report — World Food Programme
Tracking food security trends in vulnerable countries
The Global Food Security Update provides a quarterly overview of key food security trends in vulnerable countries. Information is provided by WFP VAM field teams and partners.
• Conflict in Yemen is causing increasing food insecurity.
As of June, at least 6 million people are facing Emergency (IPC Phase 4) food insecurity. Millions more could easily fall into the emergency conditions unless a political solution is found quickly.
Global Emergency Overview Snapshot, 3 - 10 June 2013
In Syria, the Syrian Government forces captured Qusayr, a strategic city in Homs province connecting the capital to the Mediterranean coast. Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were reported to have killed at least 100 people who fled the town of Qusayr after it was captured by army troops on 9 June. The UN and the ICRC have requested humanitarian access to Qusayr, but this request was turned down by the Syrian Government despite winning assurances of access earlier in the week.
Global Food Security Update - Issue 10, May 2013
Food security levels are generally better than a year earlier in East Africa and the Sahel, with most areas facing either IPC phase 1 'minimal' or phase 2 'stressed' conditions, thanks to favorable agro-climatic conditions in 2012.
24 Aug 2009 description
Central Emergency Response Fund - Report of the Secretary-General (A/64/327)
Sixty-fourth session
Item 72 (a) of the provisional agenda
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and
disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including
special economic assistance: strengthening of the coordination
Lesotho10
Nigeria20
Togo10
World Food Programme (WFP)2
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)1
Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS)1
Coordination2
Recovery and Reconstruction1
Situation Report2
Flash Flood2
Flood4
Land Slide3
Severe Local Storm1