DRC Acute Food Insecurity Projections for 2021-2022

2021 and 2022 data contains medium-term projections of acute food insecurity classifications for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, produced by FEWS NET. The dataset uses the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) framework to categorize geographic areas. It is provided as geospatial data in KML and GeoJSON formats.

Use Cases

• Mapping food insecurity risk zones based on IPC classifications
• Planning humanitarian aid distribution using geospatial boundaries
• Monitoring changes in food security projections between 2021 and 2022
• Integrating FEWS NET analysis into regional early warning systems

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse
• Projections are from FEWS NET, a recognized authority on food security analysis
• Covers two consecutive years (2021 and 2022) for temporal comparison

Limitations

• Column names and row counts are not specified in any source, limiting understanding of data structure
• The listed 'last updated' date of 2026-04-05 is inconsistent with the 2021-2022 data coverage
• Metadata is sparse, with unknown author and no information on data collection methodology

Provenance

Source

FEWS NET

Time Range

2021-2022

Freshness

Last updated metadata date is 2026-04-05, but this conflicts with the 2021-2022 data content.

Geography

Democratic Republic of the Congo