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| Phase | |
|---|---|
| 1 Minimal |
Households are able to meet essential food and non-food needs without engaging in atypical and unsustainable strategies to access food and income. |
| 2 Stressed |
Households have minimally adequate food consumption but are unable to afford some essential non-food expenditures without engaging in stress-coping strategies. |
| 3 Crisis |
Households either: - Have food consumption gaps that are reflected by high or above-usual acute malnutrition; OR - Are marginally able to meet minimum food needs but only by depleting essential livelihood assets or through crisis-coping strategies. |
| 4 Emergency |
Households either: - Have large food consumption gaps which are reflected in very high acute malnutrition and excess mortality; OR - Are able to mitigate large food consumption gaps but only by employing emergency livelihood strategies and asset liquidation. |
| 5 Famine |
Households have an extreme lack of food and/or other basic needs even after full employment of coping strategies. Starvation, death, destitution, and extremely critical acute malnutrition levels are evident. (For Famine Classification, area needs to have extreme critical levels of acute malnutrition and mortality.) |
The donors that made it all possible include the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States Agency for International Development.
Page ii of the Manual ver 3.0, cited below.
Perhaps the best way of accessing current and recent historic famine status, rated in IPC phases, is through the FEWS Net 
(Famine Early Warning System Network), which is run by U.S.A.I.D.
IPC Global Partners. 2019.
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Technical Manual Version 3.1.
Evidence and Standards for Better Food Security and Nutrition Decisions.
Rome.
A pdf may be downloaded .
More about the IPC from the organization itself: www.ipcinfo.org
FEWS NET's description of the IPC classification system, https://fews.net/IPC.
Some examples of IPC-compatible FEWS.NET reporting:
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