The IPC defines the severity of a crisis and its trend and attaches it to humanitarian response. It integrates standardized scale of

food security,

nutrition, 

livelihood and

extended mode of FS information

The IPC builds upon internationally accepted standards and classifications to support holistic evidence based approaches to analysis.

The IPC draws together multiple aspects of food security and humanitarian analysis, thus the word ‘integrated’ in its title.

The IPC summarizes Situation Analysis, which is a foundational stage whereby fundamental aspects (severity, causes, magnitude, etc) of a situation are identified