U.S. GOVERNMENT RESPONSE FOOD SECURITY

Food Security

Severity score36 / 100 · Moderate

How the score is calculated

The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.

Affected people: 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
Deaths: 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
Displaced people: 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
Casualties: 100 or more: +8
Story wording: +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.

Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.

This is a rule-based WorldsAid triage indicator, not an official or independently validated classification. It does not account for recency or local context, and it can understate events with incomplete reporting. Check the linked sources.

Last verified30 Dec 2020

Date: 30 Dec 2020
Status: CLOSED
Aid Zone: MIDDLE EAST
Countries: Lebanon
Agency: USAID CIDI

Historical record

Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07

Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.

Permanent node 521 · Historical archive

In brief

What happenedIn FY 2020, USAID/BHA supported WFP to reach 295,000 Syrian refugees and 9,600 refugees of other nationalities through cash transfers for food and food vouchers, allowing individuals to purchase nutritious foods available in local markets and support local vendors.
How many affectedAffected persons: 300,000
What help is neededMoreover, USAID/BHA expanded food programming in Lebanon to reach populations affected by the August 4 explosions and individuals particularly affected by COVID-19.

What changed

First retained snapshot

No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.

Situation

In FY 2020, USAID/BHA supported WFP to reach 295,000 Syrian refugees and 9,600 refugees of other nationalities through cash transfers for food and food vouchers, allowing individuals to purchase nutritious foods available in local markets and support local vendors. Moreover, USAID/BHA expanded food programming in Lebanon to reach populations affected by the August 4 explosions and individuals particularly affected by COVID-19. WFP is providing emergency food assistance to 543,000 people in Lebanon through its COVID-19 program and distributing in-kind food assistance and food vouchers to nearly 78,000 people affected by the August 4 explosions. From FY 2012 to FY 2020, USAID/BHA provided more than $678 million to reach refugees with emergency food assistance, in addition to $23.5 million in FY 2020 to respond to food needs among refugees and Lebanese nationals resulting from COVID-19 and the August 4 explosions.

Linked charities and agencies

WorldsAid verification

A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 1 human-impact figure was separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.