FEWS NET provides geographic data classifying acute food insecurity levels across Haiti for 2021. The dataset contains medium-term projections and is available in GeoJSON and KML formats. It was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Map projected food insecurity classifications (e.g., Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency) across Haitian administrative units.
- Analyze spatial patterns of acute food insecurity risk for 2021 using polygon features.
- Integrate FEWS NET classification polygons with population data to estimate the number of people at risk.
Strengths
- Data is provided by FEWS NET, a leading authority on famine early warning.
- Available in standard geospatial formats (GeoJSON, KML) for direct GIS use.
- Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- The dataset is a projection for a single year (2021), limiting longitudinal trend analysis.
- Specific row counts, geographic resolution (e.g., admin level), and column details are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network).
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
- 2021
- Freshness
- Metadata was updated in April 2026, but the underlying data covers 2021.
- Geography
- Haiti