The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification was originally developed in the context of Somalia in 2004, by the Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU)/FAO Somalia.
Owing to the collapse of the Somali state in the early 1990s, FSAU was created to provide overall food security analysis, as well as key information on livelihoods, crop production, market prices, nutrition, and others. FSAU conducts primary data collection in a number of sectors and analyzes that information in an integrated manner so as to inform both short and longer-term food, nutrition, and livelihood security interventions. FSAU is composed of both a food security project and a nutrition project.
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