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  Globally, levels of hunger remain alarmingly high. In 2021, they surpassed all previous records as reported by the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), with close to 193 million people acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across [...]

Rome/Dakar/ Niamey April 28, 2022 - Keep track of the global count of people experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) with the IPC-CH Dashboard. The new collaborative dashboard provides [...]

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is proud to announce the launch of the Application Programming Interface (API). Via the API, partners can access IPC Acute Food Insecurity analyses data from the countries of implementation (currently over 30 countries [...]

The annual Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) provides a consensus-based overview of the world’s food crises. It focuses on crises where the local capacities to respond are insufficient, prompting a request for the urgent mobilization of the international community, [...]

French and Spanish versions now available Rome, Italy, 1 October 2021 – The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has updated its Technical Manual (published in 2019) to improve the understanding of the 'Famine' and 'Famine Likely' classifications as well as strengthen the [...]

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 [...]