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The IPC Team is very delighted to announce the launch of the new IPC Newsletter, which has been redesigned to include feature stories, as well as regular briefing sections of regional IPC news updates and upcoming IPC events. The IPC [...]

This report is the final output of the Chatham House research project Translating Famine Early Warning into Early Action, led by the Energy, Environment and Resources Department. The project explored the barriers that hinder appropriate response to early warning of [...]

Overall, the IPC pilot project in Yemen, led by FAO, contributed to improving the capacity of relevant Government institutions in food security analysis, specifically by: 1. Establishing a dedicated IPC National Technical Working Group (NTWG); 2. Implementing the strategy for the IPC [...]

Malawi is one of the three countries of the SADC RVAC who asked to roll-out the IPC with training on IPC Version 2.0, IPC analysis of Acute Food Insecurity and IPC pilot analysis of Chronic Food Insecurity. In 2012, a Decision-Makers [...]

The IPC standardized scale categorizes the severity of acute food insecurity. According to the latest IPC Manual V.2.0, the five phases are:     Phases 1 and 5 have different titles depending on whether an area or a household socio-spatial unit of analysis [...]

This study was commissioned by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).The report concludes that a very large number of people (very probably between 143,000 and 273,000, and [...]

Trainings and Events conducted in Asia by the IPC Asia Regional Support Unit during January 2013, in particular: IPC Technical Training Version 2.0 in Nepal Level 2 IPC Training of Trainers Workshop in Thailand  Participation in the ASEAN High Level Consultative Meeting on 29-30 [...]

The European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) – Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection has generously agreed to a set of “winding up activities” for the IPC Asia initial project phase over the period of January through March 2013. This issue covers [...]

This analysis is in fulfillment of the second obligation of Economic Research Group to FAO under the agreement on "Integrated Food Security Phase Classification in Asia: special focus to strengthen IPC capacity in four countries". A part of this analysis, [...]

Despite significant efforts to mitigate hunger and poverty, food insecurity in Eastern and Central Africa remains of serious concern. A combination of conflicts, climatic shocks, transboundary crop and livestock diseases and soaring food prices have contributed to extreme poverty in [...]