The UN aid ledger for Yemen has a line for agriculture. It reads zero.

The United Nations Financial Tracking Service records US$498,650,826 reported for Yemen so far this year. Food Security has US$94,837,390 of it. Agriculture has nothing at all. The hunger assessment those figures answer to has meanwhile stopped covering roughly two thirds of Yemenis, and its famine column reads zero because the places that were in it are no longer counted.

Two public ledgers describe Yemen. One counts money and one counts hungry people. Both are open, both are free, and neither returns anything to a plain automated request, which is why the figures below had to be read in a rendered browser.

Read side by side, they do not describe the same country.

What the money ledger says

The Financial Tracking Service is run by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Donors report to it. It stamps its own pages with a date, and on the day this was read that date was 7 August 2026, the same day.

Measured UN OCHA Financial Tracking Service, Yemen country pages for 2024, 2025 and 2026, read 7 August 2026 and carrying that date. Sixty percent of 2026 had elapsed on that date. FTS records what donors report to it, so every figure here is a reporting total and not an audit of money delivered.

Broken down by sector, the 2026 total sits like this. These are the six largest lines and the one that is empty.

Measured FTS Yemen 2026, sector view, 7 August 2026. Agriculture is a live category in that table with a heading of its own. The figure against it is zero, not blank and not absent.

The largest single recipient outside the UN clears landmines

Sorted by who received the money rather than what it was for, the 2026 table puts three UN agencies at the top and then a company.

Measured FTS Yemen 2026, recipient view, 7 August 2026.

Dynasafe is the delivery contractor for Project Masam, the Saudi landmine clearance programme in Yemen funded through KSrelief. Project Masam states this on its own site, and names Dynasafe Middle East Project Management as the managing entity.

Where the fall in the headline total actually sits

The total fell from US$1.63 billion in 2025 to US$498.7 million so far in 2026, and the obvious reading is that humanitarian assistance to Yemen has been cut by two thirds. The recipient tables do not support that reading.

Measured FTS Yemen recipient views for 2025 and 2026, read 7 August 2026. The 2025 column is a completed year. The 2026 column is 60 percent of a year. Any comparison between them is a comparison of unequal periods.

The United States does not appear

The 2026 donor table lists 59 reporting entities. The Government of the United States is not one of them.

Measured FTS Yemen donor views for 2024, 2025 and 2026, read 7 August 2026. Two American private fundraising bodies do appear in 2026, the United States Fund for UNICEF at US$14,089 and USA for UNHCR at US$590,775. Neither is a government entity.

Canada is the fourth largest reporting donor

Measured FTS Yemen 2026 donor view, 7 August 2026. Canada is fourth by single reporting entity. Grouped by country it is fifth, because the German development bank KfW at US$16,218,457 is counted with Germany, which takes the German grouping to US$41.8 million. Both statements are true and they are true of different tables.

Canada reported US$48,272,637 for the whole of 2025. It has reported US$26,777,102 by 7 August 2026, which is 55 percent of last year's figure at 60 percent of the year. The individual flow records that were visible name CARE International, the World Food Programme, UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Yemen Humanitarian Fund and OCHA itself as destinations. Saudi Arabia reported US$912,696,792 in 2025 against US$101,773,636 so far this year, and the recipient tables above indicate that the larger part of the 2025 Saudi figure sat in the Government of Yemen and Not specified lines rather than in delivered programmes.

The other ledger stopped counting most of the country

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification is the standard against which famine is declared. Its Yemen analysis in force was published on 21 May 2026, with data to 20 April 2026. It is labelled a partial analysis, and the population it covers is stated on its own face.

Confirmed IPC Acute Food Insecurity Snapshot, Yemen Government-Controlled Areas, March to December 2026, published 21 May 2026. Figures taken from the governorate tables in that document, not from a summary of it. All 12 governorates analysed are in Phase 3 or above in the current period. Phase 3 is labelled Crisis in the IPC scale, Phase 4 Emergency, Phase 5 Famine or Catastrophe.

The analysis before it was published on 27 June 2025 and covered Government-controlled areas and Sana'a-based-authority areas together. It found over 17 million people in Phase 3 or above and projected 18.1 million, which it stated was 52 percent of the population analysed. Its validity period ended on 28 February 2026.

The zero in the famine column is not a measurement

The current analysis records zero people in Phase 5, in every governorate, in all three periods. The previous analysis did not.

It projected around 41,000 people in Phase 5 for September 2025 to February 2026, and it named where: Abs and Kushar in Hajjah governorate, Az Zuhrah in Al Hodeidah governorate, and Al Ashah in Amran governorate.

What this does to a household

This publication exists to trace what an event does to what an ordinary person pays, eats or relies on. For a Canadian household reading this, the honest chain is short and it is not a grocery bill.