Food for Education is the Great Hope for Yemen

The New York Times published a feature this week titled "Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan?" This article and others should spur much-needed debate and action for a peace strategy in Yemen.

This is a country with an Al Qaeda presence, as well as a conflict in the North between the government and rebels. It's also a country with high levels of hunger, malnutrition and poverty.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is working on the food security angle to the crisis facing Yemen. Maria Santamarina is one of the WFP officers trying to build support for helping one of the most food-insecure countries in the world. In Yemen, one in three people suffer from hunger.

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