Afghanistan Acute Food Insecurity Classifications for 2020-2021

Afghanistan's geographic data shows FEWS NET acute food insecurity classifications for near-term projections in 2020 and 2021. The dataset likely contains polygon-level classifications based on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) framework. It is provided under an open license for analysis and humanitarian planning.

Use Cases

• Mapping areas of acute food insecurity based on IPC classifications
• Analyzing year-over-year changes in food security conditions from 2020 to 2021
• Integrating geospatial food security data with other humanitarian datasets for Afghanistan
• Supporting near-term projection and early warning analysis for humanitarian response

Strengths

• Data is produced by FEWS NET, a specialized and authoritative source for food security analysis
• Covers two consecutive years (2020 and 2021), allowing for temporal comparison
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse

Limitations

• Column names and specific attributes are not provided, limiting understanding of data structure
• The 'last updated' metadata date of 2026-04-05 is inconsistent with the dataset's 2020-2021 content, suggesting possible metadata errors
• No row counts or file sizes are listed, obscuring the dataset's scale and completeness

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network)

Collection Method

Likely derived from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis process.

Time Range

2020-2021

Freshness

Last updated metadata shows 2026-04-05, but the data content is for 2020-2021.

Geography

Afghanistan