FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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April 2025 - Global food insecurity is rising at an increasing rate, exacerbated by conflict, climate change and rising inflation. Rigorous and reliable food security analysis is critical to ensuring humanitarian decision makers can use resources effectively. With GAC’s support, the Global Strategic Programme of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), helps to provide the humanitarian sector with the best possible food security analysis upon which to base their decisions, to help ensure needs-based policy and programming. Governments, United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, and civil society and humanitarian sector actors use the IPC’s classification and analytical approach to collaboratively determine the severity and magnitude of country-specific acute and chronic food insecurity and acute malnutrition. These determinations are made according to internationally-recognized evidence-based standards and using