In a survey conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) last year, nearly every respondent identified food as their most urgent need, with almost 80 percent of families reporting severe hunger. Our findings echo the most recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) projections, which warn that another one million people are currently at risk of slipping into life-threatening hunger, classified as IPC Phase 3+. IPC Phase 3 and above means families are routinely missing meals, relying on debt, and selling off what little they have left— jewellery, livestock, tools, even doors and cooking gas cylinders—to buy food. Even more alarming, pockets of famine affecting more than 40,000 people are expected to emerge across four districts within the next two months, marking Yemen’s bleakest food security outlook since 2022. Yemen has historically produced only a small fraction of its own food, relying on imports for roughly 80–90 percent of staple grains. By the end of 2025, the humanitarian response in Yemen was funded at less than 25 percent, marking the lowest funding level in a decade.