Yemen 2016 onwards: an intractable war?

[Azor]

You're all here also falling for the story on famine...?

Northern Yemen - the very part still controlled by Houthi/Saleh coalition - is the most fertile part of the Arabian Peninsula, and renowned for exporting food (including Coffee; term Mocha comes from the port on the Red Sea coast of Yemen) of since thousands of years. There might have been a reason old Romans called this area the 'Felix Arabica' (Happy Arabia)... or that the RAND's study of the Six Sa'ada Wars (fought between Saleh's government and the Houthis, in period 2004-2010) cited extensive exports of wheat, fruits and cattle to Saudi Arabia...

But now, and all of a sudden, there should be no food..?

Or there is, but the problem is of different nature - like explained here, for example: Yemen: Finding near-famine - and lots of food...

...or here: Yemen and the Business of War

Pay attention:

Thanks for this clarification. It reminds me of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, which was inextricable from Communist rule and civil war.