Food Assistance Fact Sheet - Colombia

March 14, 2013

Food Security Situation

CIA World Factbook

• Low food production, poverty and large-scale internal displacement due to conflict threaten food security throughout Colombia.

• Threats to rural populations by illegal armed groups restrict movement and limit access to markets and agricultural land, and consequently to food and other goods.

• The humanitarian crisis facing Colombia after more than 50 years of conflict makes it one of the countries with the highest levels of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world. Many who are forced to flee their homes due to conflict do not register as IDPs because they are afraid of being stigmatized or threatened.

Food Assistance Programs

• The Office of Food for Peace (FFP) now targets approximately 36,480 food-insecure Colombians affected by violence nationwide. 

• FFP partners with the UN World Food Program (WFP) on a variety of projects including direct food distributions to IDPs, livelihood support through food for work and food for training, vulnerable group feeding and emergency school feeding.

Food for Peace Contributions

Total Contributions:

Fiscal Year 2013 Contribution Breakdown:

*Estimated
Food Security Situation information provided by UNDP and WFP as of February 2012