{"id":345102,"date":"2025-08-25T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=345102"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:12:01","slug":"integrated-food-security-phase-classification-ipc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/integrated-food-security-phase-classification-ipc\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently, a global hunger monitoring body Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially declared that famine is occurring in Gaza.<\/p>\n<h2>About Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the main global system for assessing hunger crises.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>independent organisation<\/strong> but funded by Western countries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>19 humanitarian organisations and regional bodies oversee it and work<\/strong>\u00a0with <strong>national governments<\/strong> to analyse data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: Sound the alarm<\/strong> early to prevent famine and guide humanitarian response.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data collection method:\u00a0<\/strong> IPC relies on <strong>UN World Food Programme (WFP), o<\/strong>ther <strong>relief organisations<\/strong> and g<strong>overnment agencies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preferred measurement of malnutrition: Children\u2019s weight and height and i<\/strong>f not possible, <strong>mid-upper arm circumference<\/strong> is used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How is Famine Determined?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>IPC classifies <strong>acute food insecurity<\/strong> on a <strong>five-phase scale<\/strong>. <strong>Phase 5<\/strong> is the highest: <strong>Catastrophe<\/strong> (individual household level). and <strong>Famine<\/strong> (wider area level).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Famine criteria<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>At least <strong>20% of the population<\/strong> face extreme food shortages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1 in 3 children<\/strong> are acutely malnourished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>At least <strong>2 out of every 10,000 people die daily<\/strong> from starvation, malnutrition, or related diseases.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>famine review committee<\/strong> of up to 6 experts validates findings.<\/li>\n<li>IPC does not formally \u201cdeclare\u201d famine but provides <strong>analysis for governments and agencies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Even if an entire region is not in famine, IPC can still note <strong>\u201cfamine conditions\u201d<\/strong> at household level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, a global hunger monitoring body Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially declared that famine is occurring in Gaza. About Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) It is the main global system for assessing hunger crises. It is independent organisation but funded by Western countries. 19 humanitarian organisations and regional bodies oversee it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/integrated-food-security-phase-classification-ipc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1236,12039],"tags":[11872,10599],"class_list":["post-345102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-print","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}