The Syrian Arab Republic has faced a prolonged crisis since 2011, which has caused severe damage to the country’s economic and social fabric. In 2020, protracted crisis, economic collapse and the impacts of the coronavirus disease pandemic further exposed the Syrian people to food insecurity and eroded their livelihoods.
As of late 2020, 12.4 million people, 55 percent of the population, were food-insecure, an increase of 57 percent from 2019, with households headed by women disproportionally affected.
