Malawi Weekly Staple Food Price Data Collected by FEWS NET Since 2014

FEWS NET Malawi Weekly staple food price data has been collected since 2014. The dataset is available in CSV, XLSX, and JSON formats and was last updated on March 26, 2026. It is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling staple food price inflation based on weekly time-series data.
• Assessing market access and food affordability for security analysis.
• Tracking commodity price volatility for economic indicator development.
• Correlating price movements with seasonal or climatic events in Malawi.

Strengths

• Data collection began in 2014, providing a multi-year time series.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, XLSX, JSON).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET

Collection Method

Weekly data collection by FEWS NET.

Time Range

Since 2014.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:28:03.110876; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Malawi