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The magnitude and severity of food crises worsened in 2020 as protracted conflict, the economic fallout of COVID‑19 and weather extremes exacerbated pre-existing fragilities. Forecasts point to a grim outlook for 2021, with the threat of Famine persisting in some [...]

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) and the Cadre Harmonisé (CH) have today taken their long-term collaboration in food insecurity and malnutrition analysis to another level by joining data on the IPC website, on www.ipcinfo.org. Both initiatives use a [...]

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is happy to announce a new tool for our partners and users: the IPC Mapping Tool. It’s an enhanced interactive interface that shows a map of all the countries the IPC works in [...]

For the last four years, the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) has provided an annual, consensus-based overview of the severity, magnitude and drivers of the world’s food crises. The GRFC 2020 reported the highest global number of acutely food-insecure [...]

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2020 is the result of a joint, consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity situations around the world by 16 partner organizations. At 135 million, the number of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH [...]

Rome, Italy, 25 April 2019 - New global guidelines published today by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative will further hone food security and nutrition analysis processes for better and more actionable information during humanitarian crises. After thorough consultations, food [...]

2 April 2019, Brussels - A report presented today jointly by the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) finds that around 113 million people in 53 countries [...]

IPC and the Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) co-organized a workshop in Lome, Togo, from September 21st to the 22nd. The workshop consisted of panel presentations and discussions on the benefit of CH and IPC’s use in early [...]

Since the IPC inception in March 2013, three national IPC acute fod insecurity analyses have taken place  in Hait.  Hence, a great deal of attention has been drawn to the results achieved so far by key food security stakeholders, because [...]

In April 2015, the IPC TWG in El Salvador revised the chronic analysis that was carried out during the last trimester of 2014. This revision was possible thanks to the re-analysis of two key food security information databases namely: the [...]