Deterioration of food insecurity following the flaring up of the conflict since December 2013 and the early arrival of the lean season. Humanitarian assistance is crucial to support the agricultural season starting now and to avoid a humanitarian disaster.  Using the EFSA results of October 2013, [...]

The second rainy season usually runs from September to December. Over the past year, it stopped prematurely in October for some areas and in November for others. This situation led to the failure of end-of-year harvests in several agro-ecological zones (plains and dry mountains of the North-West, Ar [...]

An estimated 857,000 people will be in Crisis and Emergency (IPC Phases 3 and 4) requiring urgent humanitarian assistance over the next six month period according to a joint assessment report by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSNAU), a project managed by UN’s Food an [...]

A total of 23 counties were covered by the assessment that was conducted in February 2014. The aim of the assessment was to evaluate the performance and impacts of the October to December 2013 short rains on water quality and access, crop and livestock production, health and nutrition, markets and t [...]

There are no key results available for this analysis.

Although there has been a slight improvement comparing with the last IPC analysis in April 2013, food insecurity is still high due to inadequate physical and financial access to food with chronic or protracted conditions of extreme poverty, stable but high food prices and limited sources of income, [...]

The 10th analysis cycle on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification undertaken in December 2013 revealed that 6.7 million people are classified in Phases 3 (Crisis) and 4 (Emergency) and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. In comparison with the 9th cycle of June, food securit [...]

The IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis Workshop (5-16 November) covered for the first time all 34 provinces of Afghanistan.  Badakhshan and Ghor are the provinces worst affected by acute food insecurity, classified in Phase 4 (emergency) and must be highly prioritized for assistance.  14 provi [...]

15 percent of the population has minimally adequate food consumption and is unable to afford some essential non-food expenditures (IPC Phase 2 - Stressed) and engaging in some irreversible coping strategies to meet their food need. The majority of these are spread over Karamoja, Teso and Acholi regi [...]

178th country by GDP in 2010, the Central African Republic (CAR) continues to face the deterioration of the humanitarian situation as a result of recurrent armed conflicts, with dramatic effects on the vulnerability of rural communities (very poor health infrastructures, armed gangs Terror, and a nu [...]