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The crisis in Yemen: Short of food, short of data?
Author(s) -
Tarran Brian
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01232.x
Subject(s) - famine , economic shortage , spanish civil war , population , humanitarian crisis , masking (illustration) , development economics , food security , food shortage , political science , geography , environmental health , medicine , economics , refugee , biology , law , agriculture , ecology , art , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , government (linguistics) , visual arts
Years of civil war in Yemen have left the country on the brink of famine. A recent analysis suggests that more than half the population is experiencing serious food shortages. But a lack of data may be masking the full extent of this humanitarian disaster.