FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications for Malawi

FEWS NET data provides geographic classifications of acute food insecurity for Malawi, using the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) framework. The dataset includes classifications for at least the years 2013 and 2021. It is available in geospatial formats like KML and GeoJSON, but the underlying FEWS NET Data Warehouse is noted as currently unavailable.

Use Cases

• Mapping food insecurity hotspots based on IPC phase classifications.
• Analyzing changes in food security conditions between 2013 and 2021.
• Integrating classification polygons into geographic information systems for overlay analysis.

Strengths

• Data is licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Cross-platform presence on HDX suggests established use and importance.
• Covers at least two distinct time points (2013 and 2021), allowing for temporal analysis.

Limitations

• Critical metadata is missing, including column names, row counts, and specific data collection methodology.
• The FEWS NET Data Warehouse, the likely original source, is described as currently unavailable, which may affect data provenance and updates.
• The last update date (2026-04-05) appears to be a future date, indicating a potential metadata error.

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network)

Time Range

2013, 2021

Freshness

2026-04-05 10:47:43.003410

Geography

Malawi