Arab News Japan

Japan’s government provided a new grant of ¥793 million yen ($7 million USD) to Yemen through the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Nov. 1.

This contribution is an addition grant to the ¥7-billion-yen ($58.7 million USD) humanitarian assistance package provided to the people of Yemen this year.

The Japanese embassy in Yemen released a statement, saying: “The Government of Japan exchanged notes with the FAO on October 29, 2021 in Rome to launch a project to provide agricultural and pastoral livelihoods support to respond to the urgent needs of the internally displaced and their host communities.”

“There are more than 4 million IDPs in Yemen facing high levels of acute food insecurity, and this project aims to enhance food and nutrition security for vulnerable IDPs of farming pastoralists and pastoral families in Yemen by improving food production.”

Japan’s total contribution to Yemen this year amounts to a total of ¥7.4 billion yen ($65.7 million USD.)