Mauritania Acute Food Insecurity Classifications for 2021

FEWS NET provides geospatial data classifying acute food insecurity across Mauritania for 2021. The dataset includes geographic boundaries and associated classification levels. It was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Map the geographic distribution of acute food insecurity classifications across Mauritania using polygon features.
• Analyze spatial patterns of food security risk levels for 2021 to identify priority regions.
• Integrate classification polygons with other geospatial layers, such as rainfall or market data, for correlation analysis.

Strengths

• Data is provided in standard geospatial formats (GeoJSON, KML) for interoperability.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset's specific row count, column names, and sample size are unknown.
• It provides a single year (2021) of data, limiting temporal trend analysis.

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network).

Collection Method

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Time Range

2021

Freshness

Platform record was updated in April 2026, but the underlying data covers 2021.

Geography

Mauritania