Mauritania Acute Food Insecurity Classifications from FEWS NET, 2011

Mauritania data from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) on acute food insecurity classifications for the year 2011. The dataset is provided by the FEWS NET organization and was last updated on the platform in March 2026. It includes multiple file formats such as GeoJSON, CSV, KML, XLSX, and JSON.

Use Cases

• Map acute food insecurity levels across Mauritania based on the FEWS NET classifications.
• Analyze temporal trends in food security for the year 2011.
• Integrate food security data with other geospatial layers for risk assessment.
• Train models to predict or classify food insecurity using historical FEWS NET data.

Strengths

• Data originates from FEWS NET, a specialized and authoritative source for food security analysis.
• Available in multiple interoperable formats including GeoJSON, CSV, and KML.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET

Collection Method

Likely contains classifications derived from field assessments, market analysis, and remote sensing.

Time Range

2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 10:24:14.356261; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mauritania