There are currently four top-level humanitarian crises — in Iraq, Syria, Central African Republic and South Sudan — as well as hundreds of thousands of people caught up in the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and more than 50 million refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people scattered around the world, she said. Because of funding shortages and increasing demands from the four crisis countries, refugees, and countries hit hardest by Ebola, Cousin said WFP has been forced to cut some rations and distributions. Cousin said that WFP can't get into areas controlled by the Islamic State militant group, which controls a large swath of eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq, but the agency has been able to get some food in through local non-governmental organizations or the Syrian Red Crescent — though not enough.