The library
A small, slowly-growing collection of source-cited primers about acute food insecurity — how it is measured, who produces the figures, and what the headline phase classifications actually capture and miss. Plain English. Free to copy, translate, and republish.
Information only. Nothing here is medical, nutritional, or famine-response advice. For an acute food crisis, contact qualified local help.
Primers
Read-through pieces. Each one is roughly 600–900 words, source-cited, focused on a single concept that comes up everywhere in food-insecurity coverage.
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What IPC phases mean (and don’t mean)
The five-phase Integrated Food Security Phase Classification used by the UN, FAO, WFP, FEWS NET, governments, and most major news outlets. What each phase represents, how the consensus process works, why a single country can be in multiple phases at once, and what the thresholds for “famine” actually require. Foundational.
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What this site does not cover, and why
GMO health claims, organic-versus-conventional health verdicts, single-diet rankings, per-product carbon-footprint calculators, and apitherapy / food-as-medicine claims are not on the map. Here is what the FAO, WHO, and named food-system authorities actually publish.
How to use this library
Everything here is published under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. You may copy, translate, adapt, and republish any of it — please keep the source citations intact, and please publish your derivative work under the same licence so the next person can keep building.
If you are a teacher, an after-school program, a community group, a parent, a librarian, or a person who works with kids: please take what is useful and pass it on.
If you find an error, an out-of-date source, or a claim that overstates the underlying evidence: how to flag it.