Families skip meals and forgo staples as Lebanon’s paralysing fuel crisis causes food prices to skyrocket, many staple food items were no longer affordable.
Lebanon’s food crisis is not a recent development. The World Food Programme estimated that food prices have gone up by 628 percent in just two years, compounding Lebanon’s economic meltdown, which has plunged three-quarters of its population into poverty and devalued the Lebanese pound by about 90 percent.