HungerMapLIVE: Near Real-Time Food Security Indicators for Nigeria
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Description
HungerMapLIVE is the World Food Programme's global hunger monitoring system. It combines metrics on food security, weather, population, conflict, hazards, nutrition, and macro-economics to assess and predict hunger in near real-time. The platform covers 94 countries, including Nigeria, and is used by WFP staff and the humanitarian community for decision-making.
Use Cases
Predicting the magnitude and severity of hunger based on combined metrics like weather and conflict data.
Monitoring near real-time food security conditions for humanitarian response planning.
Assessing regional vulnerability by integrating population size, hazards, and macro-economic indicators.
Strengths
Data is updated in near real-time, as indicated by the platform's purpose.
Combines multiple key data sources including conflict, weather, and nutrition information.
Covers 94 countries, providing a broad geographic scope for comparative analysis.
Produced by the authoritative World Food Programme (WFP).
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Freshness should be verified despite the last update timestamp of 2026-04-28.
Provenance
Source
WFP - World Food Programme
Collection Method
Combines key metrics from various data sources such as food security information, weather, population, conflict, hazards, nutrition, and macro-economic data.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-28 20:56:32.893083; platform is designed for near real-time monitoring.
Geography
Nigeria, as part of a platform covering 94 countries.
License is CC-BY-SA-4.0, which requires attribution and sharing adaptations under the same license.