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2 THE IPC FAMINE FACT SHEET THE IPC ACUTE FOOD INSECURITY SCALE The IPC Acute Food Insecurity scale has become the global standard for the classication of acute food insecurity. [...] 3 THE IPC FAMINE FACT SHEET THE IPC ACUTE FOOD INSECURITY SCALE HOW THE FAMINE REVIEW COMMITTEE WORKS When a country IPC analysis shows a potential, or already Once the process is triggered, the Famine Review identied situation of Famine, a specic procedure is Committee (FRC) is requested to conduct a review to activated in order to conrm or disprove a Famine ensure technical rigour and neutrality. [...] their review, the FRC a partner suspects a Global Support Unit, Its scope of work presents their ndings to Famine and the Famine conducts a preliminary includes: (i) reviewing all the TWG and to the IPC Review Committee is review of the analysis available evidence for Global Steering activated. [...] conducted by the country the areas under review; Committee and TWG and evidence available and (ii) assessing the publishes the FRC report and identies key issues to plausibility of a famine on the IPC website. [...] The Famines in Somalia and South Sudan famine classication, in Somalia in 2011 and in South were extreme food crises in which large populations Sudan in 2017, that resulted in widespread acute lacked adequate access to food, mainly driven by malnutrition and the deaths of tens of thousands of conict and erratic weather patterns.