{"id":90153,"date":"2026-04-30T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:13:08","slug":"more-than-a-million-in-lebanon-expected-to-face-acute-food-insecurity-hunger-monitor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/90153\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a million in Lebanon expected to face acute food insecurity, hunger monitor says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beirut, Lebanon
Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

More than a million people in Lebanon are expected to face a food insecurity crisis in the months ahead as a result of renewed conflict and mass displacement, a global hunger monitor said on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new analysis by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has found that 1.24 million will be unable to consistently meet basic food needs and will be forced to reduce the quality and quantity of foods consumed, or resort to harmful coping strategies to survive.<\/p>\n

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Farmer Abu Hassan Issa holds a zucchini and other produce on a field in front of his house, amid a temporary ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, in the village Ras El Ain, near Tyre, southern Lebanon, on 27th April, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters\/Marko Djurica\/File photo<\/p>\n

\u201cThese results underscore the severity of the current situation in Lebanon, where conflict intersects with economic pressures putting national food security under critical risk and juncture,\u201d said Nora Ourabah Haddad, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations\u2019 representative in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The nearly two-month war between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has displaced more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon, with many heads of households out of work and relying on donations to survive as the regional conflict drives up food prices.<\/p>\n

Rising fuel prices hit sector hard
The latest conflict erupted on 2nd March, when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel in support of its backer Iran. Israel has responded with heavy airstrikes and a ground invasion.<\/p>\n

More than 2,500 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since, and Israel still occupies large swathes of the south as part of a self-declared buffer zone.<\/p>\n

The IPC said Lebanon\u2019s agricultural sector, once a critical source of food and income, has suffered from damage to farmland, displacement of farmers and rising input costs.<\/p>\n

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More than 76 per cent of south Lebanon\u2019s farmers have been displaced and 22 per cent of all agricultural land damaged in the latest bout of fighting, according to Lebanon\u2019s agriculture ministry.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear how many will be able to return after a shaky ceasefire took hold earlier this month, reducing but not entirely halting hostilities.<\/p>\n

\u201c[After] a war like this war, the agriculture sector would need years and years of rehabilitation,\u201d Lebanese Agriculture Minister Nizar Hani told Reuters.<\/p>\n

He said the sector had not yet fully recovered from a 2024 war between Hezbollah and Israel when the regional conflict began, hiking costs of diesel on which most farmers rely for their equipment.<\/p>\n

The previous war cost the agricultural sector $US586 million in losses and destroyed nearly 5,000 hectares of forest cover, according to Lebanon\u2019s National Council for Scientific Research.<\/p>\n

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Farmers harvest green beans on a field, amid a temporary ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, in the village Ras El Ain, near Tyre, southern Lebanon, on 27th April, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters\/Marko Djurica\/File photo<\/p>\n

Farmers lament losses of back-to-back wars
In southern Lebanon, Hamza Issa looked at the overripe and under-watered zucchinis in his field, which he has returned to since the 16th April ceasefire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith people being displaced, the sapling was ruined. No-one could plant anything because of the Israeli bombing and this war,\u201d said Issa.<\/p>\n

The war hit Lebanon at a time when its economy was already in crisis, battered by a 2019 economic collapse, the 2020 Beirut port explosion and the 2024 war.<\/p>\n

Farmer Ahmad Diab had poured $US20,000 into his southern Lebanese farm to repair the damage from the last war, only to find himself displaced again now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not get over the catastrophes of last year before drowning in the catastrophes of this year,\u201d said Diab, whose hometown of Khiyam falls within the zone\u00a0Israeli troops are occupying and is inaccessible.<\/p>\n

Unlike most beekeepers, Marwan Rizk, 50, remained on his farm in Qlayaa. But bombings and clashes still kept him from his fields.<\/p>\n

When he finally checked on his beehives after the ceasefire was announced, an Israeli strike hit his car, parked nearby.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is total destruction,\u201d he said. \u201cYou work and you work and you work and it\u2019s all for nothing, 50 years of work and it\u2019s all for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beirut, LebanonReuters More than a million people in Lebanon are expected to face a food insecurity crisis in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3499,31889,31890,31891,100,31892,31893,37,3542,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-90153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-fao","9":"tag-farming-in-lebanon","10":"tag-food-and-agriculture-organization","11":"tag-food-insecurity-in-lebanon","12":"tag-hezbollah","13":"tag-integrated-food-security-phase-classification","14":"tag-ipc","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-israel-lebanon-ceasefire","17":"tag-lebanon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116490771089996324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}