IPC Scale
The following table includes a summary of the IPC scale:
| Phase | Description |
|---|---|
| Generally Food Secure | More than 80% of households can meet basic food needs without atypical coping strategies |
| Borderline Food Insecure | For at least 20 percent of households, food consumption is reduced but minimally adequate without having to engage in irreversible coping strategies. These households cannot fully meet livelihoods protection needs. |
| Acute Food and Livelihood Crisis | At least 20 percent of households have significant food consumption gaps OR are marginally able to meet minimum food needs only with irreversible coping strategies such as liquidating livelihood assets. Levels of acute malnutrition are high and above normal. |
| Humanitarian Emergency | At least 20 percent of households face extreme food consumption gaps, resulting in very high levels of acute malnutrition and excess mortality; OR HH households face an extreme loss of livelihood assets that will likely lead to food consumption gaps. extreme loss of livelihood assets that will likely lead to food consumption gaps. |
| Famine/Humanitarian Catastrophe | At least 20 percent of households face a complete lack of food and/or other basic needs and starvation, death, and destitution are evident; and acute malnutrition prevalence exceeds 30% ; and mortality rates exceed 2/10000/day |
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