FEWS NET provides weekly staple food price data for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The dataset is published on the HDX platform and was last updated on 2026-03-03. Data is available in JSON, XLSX, and CSV formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyzing temporal trends in staple food affordability (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the relationship between market prices and food security indicators (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Creating dashboards for humanitarian response planning (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the HDX platform, a major humanitarian data repository.
- Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
- Data is available in multiple common formats (JSON, XLSX, CSV).
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and sample data are unavailable, limiting suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- FEWS NET
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-03 09:10:34.690113; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo