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The aim of the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) is to be a platform for knowledge sharing in all aspects relating to the generation and communication of food security and nutrition information. FSIN also acts as an advocate and facilitator for timely and evidence-based decision-making in food security and nutrition.

The paper FSIN Landscape of Key Actors describes the key actors concerned with producing information for food [...]

The WFP VAM bulletin provides an overview of the food security trends in 57 countries in six regions and offers an outlook for the 3-6 months following its release.

In this issue:

• Due to conflict, ‘Emergency’ (IPC phase 4) levels of food insecurity exists in local areas of South Sudan, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, South and West Yemen and northern Mali. ‘Crisis’ (IPC phase 3) conditions prevail in [...]

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 Newsletter will be issued on a quarterly basis and aims to keep stakeholders and partners informed on on-going IPC activities and results, both globally and in the different regions around [...]

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 slow-onset food crises. The report builds on the author's earlier report Famine Early Warning and Early Action: the Cost of Delay, and on the findings of field research in West [...]

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 roll out including identification of the institutional setting, assessment of existing in-country capacity, and organization of IPC training and analysis exercises.

3. Assessing available secondary data and information, and developing a [...]

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 Awareness Raising Workshop took place to sensitize key officials from government and other stakeholders about IPC and the objectives of the Acute and Chronic Training and Analysis workshops which were [...]

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 more likely to be closest to our best estimate of 258,000) died in southern and central Somalia as a result of the food insecurity emergency of 2010-2012. An [...]

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 January 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand.
• IPC Asia Side Event linked into the ASEAN/FAO High Level Consultation (HLC) on Integrating Nutrition into ASEAN Food Security Framework and its Strategic Plan of Action. 

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 some of the activities that took place in the last month of the initial project phase (December) as well as some recommended [...]

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, dealing with the framework, was submitted previously on 14 November 2012. This has been extended to allow for skipping the prototypes and adhere to the basics – that is, the [...]