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Risk of Famine

The IPC partnership defines ‘risk of Famine’ as the reasonable probability of an area going into Famine (IPC Phase 5) in the projected period, when Famine is not the most likely scenario. When analysts assess that the most likely scenario would result in Famine, either Famine – solid evidence or Famine – reasonable evidence will be classified (depending on the amount and quality of evidence available). By contrast, analysts may [...]

Manuals | 06/07/2023 | Global

Guatemala: About 4.3 million people are likely to experience high acute food insecurity between June - August 2023

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Infographics | 28/06/2023 | Latin America & Caribbean | Guatemala

Pakistan: Severe monsoon rains, flooding driving 10.5 million people into high levels of acute food insecurity

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Infographics | 05/06/2023 | Asia and Near East | Pakistan

Honduras: About 2.3 million people experiencing high acute food insecurity between March - May 2023

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Infographics | 26/05/2023 | Latin America & Caribbean | Honduras

Yemen: 3.9 million people likely to experience high levels of acute food insecurity, 456,000 children expected to be acutely malnourished

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Infographics | 25/05/2023 | Asia and Near East | Yemen

Central African Republic: 2.4 million people experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity

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Infographics | 24/05/2023 | West Africa | Central African Republic

Democratic Republic of the Congo: About 26 million people experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity

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Infographics | 19/05/2023 | Central Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo

Estimating the population in need of humanitarian food security assistance

Under existing IPC AFI protocols, populations are classified into five different IPC Phases, given the full set of conditions and outcomes those households are understood to be facing. Given that some households may be relying on humanitarian food security assistance in the current situation to meet their basic food needs, those households might have better outcomes (and therefore be classified in a better IPC Phase) than if they had not [...]

Manuals | 12/05/2023 | Global