Kenya Acute Food Insecurity Classifications and Projections for 2016

FEWS NET provides geospatial data classifying acute food insecurity levels across Kenya for 2016, including medium-term projections. The dataset is archived in GEOJSON and KML formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The original FEWS NET Data Warehouse source is currently unavailable.

Use Cases

• Mapping projected food insecurity classifications (e.g., Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency) across Kenyan administrative units for 2016.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution and severity of acute food insecurity using polygon features from the GEOJSON data.
• Integrating FEWS NET classification geometries with other geospatial layers like rainfall or crop health for correlation analysis.

Strengths

• Data originates from FEWS NET, a leading authority on famine early warning.
• Provides standardized acute food insecurity classifications for spatial analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset is archived and its source Data Warehouse is unavailable, limiting verification and updates.
• Contains only a single year (2016) of data, offering no temporal trend analysis.
• Specific column names, row counts, and data collection methodology are unknown.

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network)

Collection Method

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Time Range

2016

Freshness

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Geography

Kenya