electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurit-10560d93

Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data | Africa (Mauritania official open data)

17,150 rows - 1 Africa country - 2020 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Mauritania as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data
• Publisher: FEWS NET
• Resource: Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data from 2011
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MRT	17,150	2020	2020	Mauritania

Indicators or Resource Contents

• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-a9525f22 - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - preference rating
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-774e2805 - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - is allowing for assistance
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-73c89d62 - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - value
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-3f64cbae - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - id
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-e256e817 - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - datacollectionperiod
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-4885f700 - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - datacollection
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-026011bf - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - geographic unit
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-11ea8e8e - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - datasourceorganization
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-619f0e4e - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - datasourcedocument
• mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati-68f83890 - Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data - dataseries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurity-classificati
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classificati
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	MRT
country_name	string	Country name.	Mauritania
year	Int64	Observation year.	2020
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	90.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_source_organization	string	Source dimension.	FEWS NET
dimension_source_document	string	Source dimension.	Food Security Outlook, Mauritania
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	Mauritania
dimension_country_code	string	Source dimension.	MR
dimension_geographic_group	string	Source dimension.	Western Africa
dimension_fewsnet_region	string	Source dimension.	West Africa
dimension_geographic_unit_full_name	string	Source dimension.	Agropastoralism, Aioun, Hodh el Gharbi, Mauritania
dimension_geographic_unit_name	string	Source dimension.	Agropastoralism
dimension_unit_type	string	Source dimension.	fsc_admin_lhz
dimension_fnid	string	Source dimension.	MR2014C3020107
dimension_classification_scale	string	Source dimension.	IPC 2.0
dimension_scenario_name	string	Source dimension.	Current Situation
dimension_projection_start	string	Source dimension.	2014-10-01
dimension_projection_end	string	Source dimension.	2014-10-31
dimension_status	string	Source dimension.	Collected
dimension_description	string	Source dimension.	Minimal
dimension_scenario	string	Source dimension.	CS
dimension_document_type	string	Source dimension.	Acute Food Insecurity Classification
dimension_dataseries_name	string	Source dimension.	Agropastoralism, Aioun, Hodh el Gharbi, Mauritania (From 01/01/2014): IP
dimension_specialization_type	string	Source dimension.	/IPCPhase/
dimension_dataseries_specialization_type	string	Source dimension.	/IPCClassification/
dimension_data_usage_policy	string	Source dimension.	Public
dimension_created	string	Source dimension.	2020-11-25T14:32:59
dimension_modified	string	Source dimension.	2020-11-25T14:32:59
dimension_collection_status	string	Source dimension.	Published
dimension_collection_status_changed	string	Source dimension.	2021-01-05T21:16:29
dimension_collection_schedule	string	Source dimension.	Ad Hoc
dimension_reporting_date	string	Source dimension.	2014-10-01
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2011
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2011
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2011
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	FEWS NET
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classificati
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classificati
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	cf5f3e73-8f34-4ff9-aa07-2b55f83d2430
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	a5e0d62a-1400-4c0f-b1fb-adab8540e3e0
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://fdw.fews.net/api/ipcphase/?preference=best&country=MR&scenario=C
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-18T00:06:00Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurit-10560d93")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MRT"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritania_mauritania_current_situation_fews_net_acute_food_insecurit_105_2020,
  title        = {Mauritania Current Situation FEWS NET Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Data | Africa (Mauritania official open data)},
  author       = {FEWS NET},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/mauritania_current_situation_fewsnet_ipc_classification},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-current-situation-fews-net-acute-food-insecurit-10560d93}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) FEWS NET. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-08-18 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://fdw.fews.net/api/ipcphase/?preference=best&country=MR&scenario=CS&format=csv