Niger Acute Food Insecurity Classifications for 2011 and 2014

FEWS NET data provides geospatial classifications of acute food insecurity for Niger, specifically for the years 2011 and 2014. The dataset uses the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) framework. It is archived on HDX as the FEWS NET Data Warehouse is currently unavailable.

Use Cases

• Mapping food insecurity severity across Niger based on IPC classifications.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of acute food insecurity for specific years (2011, 2014).
• Comparing food security conditions between different years in Niger.
• Informing regional food security assessments and early warning reports.

Strengths

• Uses the standardized IPC framework for food security classification.
• Explicitly covers two distinct years (2011 and 2014) for temporal analysis.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column names and data structure are unknown, limiting immediate usability.
• Dataset is archived and the primary source (FEWS NET Data Warehouse) is unavailable.
• Row counts, file sizes, and specific geographic granularity are not provided.

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network)

Time Range

2011, 2014

Freshness

Last updated on HDX: 2026-04-05

Geography

Niger