The IPC provides
#foodsecurity
&
#nutrition
analyses for decision-making in over 30 countries facing food crises. A global partnership of 19 organizations.
The situation in
#Sudan
is catastrophic.
Risk of Famine in 14 areas as 755,000 people face catastrophic acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5).
Read more ▶️:
❗️AFGHANISTAN Alert:
A record high of nearly 19 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, in Crisis and Emergency, (IPC Phases 3 and 4) due to devastating drought, conflict & economic collapse.
Full analysis ➡️
Relentless hostilities and severely restricted humanitarian access have inflicted catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity on the population of the
#GazaStrip
.
Full analysis➡️
An
@theIPCinfo
analysis update conducted in
#Tigray
and the neighbouring zones of Amhara and Afar in northern
#Ethiopia
, finds that over 350,000 people are critically food insecure, classified in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) between May and June 2021.
IPC Famine Review Committee confirms Famine is imminent in northern governorates of
#GazaStrip
anytime between now and May 2024.
Read the full FRC report➡️
#Gaza
Urgent action is needed.
Hostilities, including bombardment, ground operations & besiegement of the entire population have caused catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.
There is a risk of Famine.
Read more ➡️
#Gaza
Alert!
495,000 people (22 percent of the
#Gaza
Strip population) face catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5).
Households experience an extreme lack of food, starvation, and exhaustion of coping capacities.
Read more▶️:
❗NEW analysis for
#Somalia
🇸🇴
6.7 million people (41% of country’s population) face acute
#foodinsecurity
outcomes.
Humanitarian needs are extremely high!
See the latest snapshot ➡️
#Sudan
🇸🇩 alert!
14 months into the conflict, Sudan is facing the worst levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
ever recorded by the IPC in the country.
Read more ▶️:
IPC Famine Review Committee confirms the situation in
#Gaza
Strip remains catastrophic with a high and sustained risk of Famine.
Read the full FRC report:
#Somalia
🇸🇴 Alert!
Nearly 6.5 million people likely to experience high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
between April and June due to:
🔵 drought
🔵 high food and water prices
🔵 conflict
Read more ➡️ :
#Gaza
is the most severe
#foodcrisis
in the history of the Global Report on Food Crises
#GRFC24
.
Over half of the population surveyed are facing catastrophic
#foodinsecurity
with
#famine
imminent in some areas.
Learn more:
❗
#Somalia
🇸🇴 Alert❗
5.6 million people are experiencing high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
(IPC Phase 3 or above) through Dec 2022.
From April to June 2023,
#Famine
(IPC Phase 5) is projected in parts south central
#Somalia
.
Read more ➡️
#Sudan
🇸🇩 Alert!
Intense conflict, organized violence and continued economic decline drive 17.7 million people into high levels of acute food insecurity.
Read more ➡️
What is
#drought
?
A prolonged and widespread deficit in naturally available water supplies💦
#Somalia
🇸🇴 is facing extreme drought. Major crop losses, increased livestock death and widespread shortages are depriving millions of the food they desperately need.
❗️
#Somalia
🇸🇴 Breaking news:
There are clear indications that
#famine
will occur at some point between Oct-Dec 2022 if
#drought
and conflict intensify and food prices continue to rise.
Read more ➡️
❗
#SouthSudan
🇸🇸 Alert:
6.6 million people in South Sudan experiencing high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
, driven by:
🔘 Economic decline
🔘 Climactic shocks
🔘 Conflict
Among these, 66,000 people in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5).
Full analysis ➡️
#Somalia
🇸🇴 food crisis:
IPC Famine Review Committee’s panel of experts release full
#famine
review report.
Read about their findings and conclusions here ➡️
📈 The highest number of acutely food insecure people ever recorded by any IPC analysis in Afghanistan is demonstrated in the time-lapse below.
Read our full analysis released today ➡️
❗️
#YemenFoodInsecurity
🇾🇪 Alert:
Over 17 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, in Crisis & Emergency (IPC Phases 3 & 4), due to conflict, economic shocks & lack of assistance. Situation projected to worsen.
Full analysis ➡️
Time-lapse below 👇 shows number of Afghans experiencing or facing high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
since 2018.
Latest figures for 2022 show minimal improvement and the situation remains highly concerning.
Full analysis ➡️
❗
#Somalia
🇸🇴
1.8 million children (55%) of the TOTAL population under 5 will likely face
#acutemalnutrition
through mid-2023 with
#famine
(Phase 5) projected in 2 districts.
This is a catastrophic situation that no child deserves to face.
Learn more:
Latest analysis in
#Kenya
🇰🇪
4.4 million people in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) projected to experience high levels of acute
#FoodInsecurity
(Oct-Dec 22).
Driven by prolonged
#drought
and skyrocketing food prices.
Full analysis and snapshot:➡️
❗️
#Afghanistan
Alert:
High acute food insecurity persists.
A collapsing economy & drought is depriving nearly 20 million Afghans of food, classified in Crisis or Emergency (IPC Phases 3 or 4), between March & May 2022.
Full analysis ➡️
#Kenya
🇰🇪 ALERT!
5.4 million people expected to be in high acute
#foodinsecurity
through June 2023 due to below-average short rains, high staple food prices and conflict & insecurity.
Full analysis➡
Timelapse shows worsening
#YemenFoodInsecurity
Assuming:
🔘Reduction of assistance
🔘Escalation in conflict
🔘Continued economic deterioration
Population in need of assistance increases to 19 million from June 2022. This is 17% higher than 2021.
More:
💡FAMINE:
An area is classified in IPC Phase 5 (Famine) when:
➡️>20% of households face extreme food shortages
➡️>30% of children suffer from acute malnutrition
➡️Daily mortality rate exceeds 2 per 10,000 people, or 4 per 10,000 children under five
📑
#Somalia
🇸🇴 Alert!
About 4.3 million people likely to experience high levels of acute food insecurity; 1.5 million children likely to suffer from acute malnutrition.
Read more➡️
⚠️Risk of
#Famine
due to worsening
#drought
in six areas of
#Somalia
🇸🇴through June if current rains fail, food prices continue to rise and humanitarian assistance is not scaled up to reach the countries’ most vulnerable populations.
Read more ➡️
See the IPC Famine Fact Sheet to understand better how the IPC defines and classifies
#Famine
and how it differs from the ‘Famine Likely’ classification and the Risk of Famine.
Learn more ➡️
#Trendanalysis
for
#Somalia
:
🔘3 major drought crises in last 3 decades
🔘2010-11 drought led to famine that left 260,000 people dead
🔘Worsening drought now putting some areas at an increased Risk of Famine through September 2022
Extended snapshot➡️
The people of
#Somalia
🇸🇴 are in a catastrophic state of
#foodinsecuity
There are clear indications that
#famine
will occur between Oct-Dec 2022 in the Baidoa and Burhakaba districts of Bay Region.
Learn more about
#famine
and how it’s declared:
❗️IPC Somalia 🇸🇴 Alert:
Acute malnutrition at Critical levels in many areas.
Number of acutely malnourished children being admitted to treatment centers rapidly increasing, with two to four-fold increases reported in some districts.
Full analysis:
What is
@theIPCinfo
?
The IPC is a partnership of 15 organisations that promotes a set of tools & procedures used to classify acute
#foodinsecurity
and
#malnutrition
based on international standards. It aims to inform decision-making.
About 1.8 million children under the age of five in
#Somalia
🇸🇴 likely to suffer from acute
#malnutrition
this year. Of these, nearly 478,000 children are severely malnourished.
Full analysis ➡️:
❗️
#Sudan
🇸🇩 Alert:
Acute food insecurity continues to worsen at a rapid pace.
11.7 million people projected to be in IPC Phase 3 or worse starting in June.
Key drivers: significant increases in prices, a reduced harvest & conflict.
Full analysis ➡️
#HAITI
🇭🇹 ALERT!
4.7M people, nearly half of the population, experiencing high levels of acute
#FoodInsecurity
in
#Haiti
including 19,000 classified in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5).
For more info ➡️
The IPC is:
🔘Used in 30 countries
🔘A platform that informs over $6.1 billion in humanitarian response
🔘A resource for over 600 trained food security analysts
…and much more:
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#Sudan
🇸🇩 Alert!
Conflict and economic decline have driven over 20.3 million people across the country into high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above).
Read more➡️
At IPC, we aim to improve analysis and decision-making on food security and nutrition globally.
Celebrating a new milestone for IPC, as we welcome 4 🆕 partner organizations,
@IFPRI
,
@UNDP
,
@WorldBank
,
@WHO
.
Learn more ➡️
#Pakistan
🇵🇰 Update:
Nearly 4.66 million people in Pakistan’s regions of
#Balochistan
,
#KhyberPakhtunkhwa
and
#Sindh
will experience high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) through April 2022.
Full analysis➡️:
❗️IPC Somalia 🇸🇴 Alert:
Multiple areas face a Risk of Famine (IPC Phase 5) amid an exceptionally severe drought, soaring food prices, and insecurity.
7.1 million people likely experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity.
Full analysis ➡️
#Haiti
🇭🇹 Alerte :
4,5 millions d'Haïtiens connaissent des niveaux élevés d'insécurité alimentaire aiguë
Facteurs clés:
🔘Aide alimentaire humanitaire plus faible que prévu
🔘Retombées continues du tremblement de terre de 2021
Analyse complète (FR)➡️
Alrededor de 123 mil personas estarán experimentando inseguridad alimentaria aguda en la Región Trinacional 🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳entre julio y septiembre de 2024 debido a:
🔘Altos precios de alimentos
🔘Variabilidad climática
🔘Bajas reservas de alimentos
Leer más➡️:
Food insecurity remains alarmingly high in
#Afghanistan
with continuing conflict, widespread unemployment, and price hikes, all exacerbated by the impacts of the
#COVID
-19 pandemic. Red more:
#Lebanon
🇱🇧 alert!
About 1.26 million people are expected to face high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
due to:
🔘inflation
🔘conflict
🔘reduction in humanitarian food assistance
Read more➡️:
📋 Background on Afghanistan crisis:
Over four decades of deadly conflicts & recurrent natural disasters have resulted in a protracted food crisis affecting millions. It is the world’s second most food insecure country.
Download our extended snapshot ➡️
See the IPC Famine Fact Sheet to understand better how the IPC defines and classifies
#Famine
.
Learn how a
#Famine
classification differs from the ‘Famine Likely’ classification and the Risk of Famine.
Full fact sheet➡️
📢NEW report on Chronic Food Insecurity in
#Malawi
:
An in-depth analysis of why over 1/4 of the population continues to experience Moderate or Severe levels of Chronic Food Insecurity, and medium to long-term interventions to address structural causes.
#Haiti
🇭🇹 Alert:
4.5 million Haitians experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity.
Lower than expected humanitarian food assistance and continued fallout from the 2021 earthquake are key drivers.
Full analysis ➡️
#SouthSudan
🇸🇸 Alert:
Conflict, insecurity, climatic shocks & economic decline driving high acute food insecurity for over 7.7 million people.
Among these, 87,000 people are likely to be in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) starting this month.
Full analysis:
❗️
#Somalia
🇸🇴 Alert
Severe
#drought
, ongoing conflict and high food prices drive 6 million people into high acute
#foodinsecurity
in Somalia with parts of the country at Risk of
#Famine
.
Read more➡️
Watch video to learn more about the
@theIPCinfo
’s Acute Food Insecurity Scale (AFI) with Nicholas Haan. The AFI Scale classifies
@foodinsecurity
found at a specific point in time and of a severity that threatens lives or livelihoods.
Over 10 million people in
#Afghanistan
are experiencing severe acute food insecurity and require urgent humanitarian action, latest
@theIPCinfo
data shows. Read more:
#Haiti
🇭🇹 alert!
Nearly 5 million people are experiencing high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
due to:
🔘inflation
🔘low agricultural production
🔘conflict
🔘lack of humanitarian assistance
Read more➡️:
Latest
@theIPCinfo
data shows that an estimated 7.3 million people in
#Sudan
are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) due to the devaluation of the
#SudanesePound
(SDG), inflation and localized conflict. Read more:
❗️Grand Sud & Grand Sud-Est
#Madagacar
🇲🇬 Alerte :
Près de 1,7 million de personnes sont confrontées à des niveaux élevés d'insécurité alimentaire aiguë (Phase 3 de l'IPC ou+) sous l'effet des systèmes de tempête, de la sécheresse & des chocs de prix.
Today is international
#GISDay
.
#GIS
plays a critical role in all that we do.
Behind this map of
#Afghanistan
, there is the work of 51 analysts, 45 analysis areas, and the
#foodinsecurity
status of over 41 million people.
#GIS
helps us get information to those who can help.
Alerte
#HAITI
🇭🇹 :
Environ 4,3 millions connaissent des niveaux élevés d'insécurité alimentaire aiguë jusqu'en fév. 2022 en raison du tremblement de terre,
#TropicalStormGrace
+ l'instabilité politique.
Snapshot + analyse (en français):
South Sudan: Analyses show populations in six counties facing 'Famine Likely' or 'Catastrophe' food insecurity, aggravated by floods and conflict. Read more:
#CentralAfricanRepublic
🇨🇫 ALERT:
2.2 million people facing high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
(Phase 3+), of which nearly 640k are in Phase 4 (Emergency), linked to conflict and high food prices.
Full snapshot + analysis:
#CARcrisis
❗️Grand Sud and Grand Sud-Est
#Madagacar
🇲🇬 Alert:
Almost 1.7 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) driven by cyclones, tropical storms, floods, droughts and price shocks.
Full analysis:
How is
#drought
putting
#Somalia
at Risk of
#Famine
?
🔘Livestock deaths
🔘Crop failure
🔘High food prices
🔘Water and milk scarcity
🔘Conflict and displacement
Read more➡️
#Kenya
🇰🇪
#MALNUTRITION
ALERT!
Around 970,000 children under 5 and 142,000 women expected to be acutely malnourished through May 2023 due to high
#foodinsecurity
, poor childcare & WASH practices and insufficient health services.
Full analysis ➡
@theIPCinfo
today launched new
#IPCManual
with improved global guidelines published today aimed at further honing
#foodsecurity
and
#nutrition
analysis processes for better and more actionable information during humanitarian crises.
#Sudan
🇸🇩
#Trendanalysis
📈 The number of people facing high acute food insecurity has jumped by around 2 million when compared to the same periods in 2020 and 2021.
Full analysis:
#Kenya
🇰🇪 Alert!
Despite positive seasonal impacts, pockets of food insecurity persist across arid and semi-arid lands.
With 1.9 million people acutely food insecure & 847,000 children facing elevated levels of acute malnutrition.
Read more➡️:
It’s the worst
#desertlocust
infestation the East and Horn of Africa has experienced since the 1950s.
#Kenya
is seeing the largest swarms in 70 years, while
#Ethiopia
and
#Somalia
are dealing with the largest swarms in 25 years. Read the details here:
#Madagascar
🇲🇬 Alert!
Approximately 1.31 million people in Grand Sud and Grand Sud-Est experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity.
Nearly 459,000 children facing/expected to face elevated levels of acute malnutrition Madagascar.
❗️
#YemenMalnutrition
🇾🇪 Alert:
Food insecurity & malnutrition have converged to high levels of severity.
Approximately 2.2 million children under five are likely to be acutely malnourished in 2022, including 538k severely malnourished.
Full analysis ➡️
#SouthSudan
🇸🇸 Alert!
Almost half of South Sudan's population - approximately 5.83 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity.
Urgent action is needed.
Read more➡️
The latest
@theIPCinfo
analysis shows that over one million children in North East
#Nigeria
are expected to be acutely malnourished, including over 600,000 facing severe
#malnutrition
, who may die if nothing is done. Read more:
#nutrition
Nearly 2.3 million
#children
under 5 in
#Yemen
are projected to suffer from acute
#malnutrition
in 2021. Of these, 400,000 are likely to be in severe acute malnutrition and could die if they do not receive urgent treatment. Read more:
#DemocraticRepublicCongo
🇨🇩 alert!
Over 1.1 million children under five facing/expected to face elevated levels of acute malnutrition between July 2023 and June 2024.
Learn more 📷
#HAITI
🇭🇹 ALERTE!
4,7 millions de personnes, soit près de la moitié de la population, connaissent des niveaux élevés d'insécurité alimentaire aiguë en Haïti, dont 19 000 sont classées en situation de catastrophe (phase 5 de l'IPC).
Lire plus ➡️
Around 7.1 million people in
#Sudan
expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity through December 2020. This
@theIPCinfo
projection update shows a worse situation than forecast in June 2020. Full details here:
9.6 million people in
#Sudan
are in high
#foodinsecurity
through September 2020 and will require urgent humanitarian action, latest
@theIPCinfo
shows. Read more here:
#Sudan
🇸🇩
In need of urgent action.
Around 15 million people likely to face crisis or worse from October 2023 to February 2024 - highest ever recorded figure coinciding with Sudan’s harvest season.
Full analysis➡️
🚨
#FAMINE
IN SUDAN 🇸🇩
To stop it, the IPC Famine Review Committee calls for:
📣Cessation of hostilities and halting of attacks on civilian infrastructure
📣Humanitarian access
📣Implementation of a large-scale humanitarian response
Read more ➡️
#ActNow
#Haiti
🇭🇹 alerte!
Ayant besoin de l’action urgente.
Près de 5 M personnes en situation d’
#ins
écuritéalimentaire aiguë élevée (Phase IPC 3 ou +).
Analyse complète➡️:
The
#EastandHornofAfrica
is facing one of the worst
#desertlocust
infestations in decades. Based on
@theIPCinfo
analysis, over 13M people in the affected areas are already severely food insecure. Track the spread and read more about the likely impact:
Environ 1,14 million de personnes du Grand Sud de
#Madagascar
sont estimées en
#ins
écuritéalimentaire aiguë élevée (Phase 3 de l’IPC ou plus) jusqu’en septembre 2021, dont près de 14 000 personnes en situation de Catastrophe (Phase 5 de l’IPC) 👉
❗
#Yemen
🇾🇪 ALERT!
Nearly 17 million people are experiencing high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
, in Crisis and Emergency (IPC Phases 3 and 4). Driven by conflict, climate change and economic decline.
Full snapshots in AR and EN ➡️
Latest analysis in Karamoja,
#Uganda
:
Approx. 41% of the population are estimated to be acutely food insecure, linked to climate shocks, a fragile security situation and low production.
Slight improvement expected later this year.
Full analysis ➡️
🇳🇦
#Namibia
alert!
Between July and September 2024, around 1.4 million people are projected to face high levels of
#acutefoodinsecurity
(IPC Phase 3 or above), more than double compared to last year.
Read more▶️
El último análisis de
@theIPCinfo
muestra que más de 3,7 millones de personas de
#Guatemala
se encuentran en condiciones de
#inseguridadalimentaria
aguda de Fase 3 o 4 de la CIF entre noviembre de 2020 y marzo de 2021. Más información:
3.2 million people in Southern
#Yemen
are in high
#foodinsecurity
through December 2020 and will require urgent humanitarian action, latest
@theIPCinfo
shows. Read more here:
Nearly 4.5 million children are facing or expected to face acute malnutrition between July 2024 and June 2025.
Contributing factors:
🔘Food insecurity
🔘No safe drinking water
🔘Endemic diseases
🔘Insecurity and population displacement
Learn more➡️:
❗
#DRC
🇨🇩 ALERT!
26 million people in
#DRC
experiencing high levels of acute
#foodinsecurity
(IPC Phase 3 or above).
Driven by:
🔘 Conflict and displacement
🔘 High fuel/food prices
🔘 Lack of basic infrastructure
See full analysis ➡️
Over 200,000 people or 20% of
#Eswatini
’s rural population are experiencing severe acute food insecurity and require urgent humanitarian action between June and September 2019, latest data shows. Read more: Snapshot:
#SADCRVAA
#Nigeria
🇳🇬ALERT:
Nearly 6 million children under five are likely suffering from acute
#malnutrition
through April 2023.
Figure includes 1.6 million children with Severe Acute Malnutrition at risk of death and need urgent treatment.
Full analysis➡️