The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) defines famine as an extreme deprivation of food. Starvation, death, destitution and extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition are or will likely be evident. A Famine classification (IPC Phase 5) is the highest [...]
This document aims at providing more in-depth knowledge about Famine classifications, especially to the analysts and facilitators analysing a possible Famine situation. As a result, the document includes detailed guidance for use of the special additional protocols, and on evidence needed for [...]
These guidelines, developed by the IPC Communication Unit, are intended primarily for IPC technical trainers, writers and translators, both inhouse and freelance, working on any form of technical communication. Now that so many texts disseminated by the IPC are drafted in [...]
The use of maps in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is central in the fight against food insecurity. IPC maps reflect the phase classification and the humanitarian food assistance mapping protocol: if a significant level of humanitarian food assistance is [...]