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Factsheet: The IPC Famine (last update: October 2024)

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WHAT IS FAMINE?

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classi cation (IPC) denes Famine as a situation in which at least one in ve households has an extreme lack of food and face starvation and destitution, resulting in extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition and death.

The IPC plays a critical role in identifying Famine conditions, and informing the response needed to save millions of lives. The IPC is now the primary mechanism the international community uses to analyse data and arrive at a conclusion whether Famine is happening or projected to occur in a country. Analyses are based on evidence gathered by a wide range of partners and multistakeholder technical consensus.