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Acute Food Insecurity Forecast for OIC Countries
The IPC Acute Food Insecurity classification differentiates between severity levels of acute food
insecurity: 1) Minimal/None; 2) Stressed; 3) Crisis; 4) Emergency; and 5)
Catastrophe/Famine.149 The Cadre Harmonisé (CH) is a regional framework used to preclude
food crisis by identifying impacted populations and improving their food security.150
Table 18: IPC/CH Acute Food Insecurity Phase Description
Phase Technical Description PriorityResponse
Objective
1. Minimal More than four in five households in the area are able to meet
essential food and non-food needs without engaging in
atypical, unsustainable strategies to accessfood and income,
including any reliance on humanitarian assistance.
Resilience building and
disaster risk reduction
2. Stressed Even with any humanitarian assistance at least one in five
households in the area have the following or worse: minimally
adequate food consumption but are unable to afford some
essential non-food expenditures without engaging in
detrimental coping strategies
Disaster risk reduction
and protection of
livelihoods
3. Crisis Even with any humanitarian assistance at least one in five
households in the area have the following or worse: food
consumption gaps with high or above usual acutemalnutrition
OR aremarginally able to meet minimum food needs only with
accelerated depletion of livelihood assets that will lead to food
consumption gaps.
URGENT ACTION
REQUIRED
to protect livelihoods,
reduce food consumption
gaps and reduce acute
malnutrition
4. Emergency Even with any humanitarian assistance at least one in five
households in the area have the following or worse: large food
consumption gaps resulting in very high acutemalnutrition
and excess mortality OR extreme loss of livelihood assetsthat
will lead to food consumption gaps in the shortterm.
URGENT ACTION
REQUIRED
to save lives and
livelihoods
5. Famine Even with any humanitarian assistance at least one in five
households in the area has an extreme lack of food and other
basic needs where starvation, death, and destitution are
evident.
URGENT ACTION
REQUIRED
to prevent widespread
death and total collapse
of livelihoods
Source: Global Report on Food Crises 2019
149 IPCwebsite. (n.d.). IPC Acute Food Insecurity Classification.Retrieved
overview-and-classification-system/ipc-acute-food-insecurity-classification/en/
150 FAO. (2016, October). Cadre Harmonisé for identifying riskareas and vulnerable populationsin sixteen states of Nigeria.
Retrieved