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TEHRAN, April 10, YJC - According to UN World Food Program, 53 percent of the Iraqi population may be at risk of food insecurity and cannot bear any further food price increases.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - A study found that 53 percent of the Iraqi population may be at risk of food insecurity and cannot bear any further food price increases, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday.
According to the WFP statement, "any further shocks such as conflict or increases in basic food prices" would be detrimental to the already precarious situation in which the Iraqis most vulnerable to food insecurity found themselves.
The study also found that 2.5 percent of the Iraqis already were food insecure and almost 75 percent of children under age of 15 have to work to help their families procure food instead of going to school.
The study was conducted among 20,000 Iraqi families in rural and urban areas, including permanent residents and internally displaced people.
The research was carried out before the start of a recent operation to liberate Iraqi city of Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group.
The offensive of the government forces began in October 2016. Local authorities told Sputnik last Friday that almost 500,000 people had fled Mosul since the beginning of the operation.
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