electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-cdfb7b5e

Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data | Africa (Mauritania official open data)

61,063 rows - 1 Africa country - 2002 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX 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 Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data
• Publisher: FEWS NET
• Resource: FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data for Mauritania
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MRT	61,063	2002	2002	Mauritania

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	835654b5-117f-4920-a328-2982aa305ab9:data:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	MRT
country_name	category	Country name.	Mauritania
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	data
year	Int64	Observation year.	2002
country	string	Source column.	Mauritania
fnid	string	Source column.	MR0000M001
market	string	Source column.	Adel Bagrou
admin_1	string	Source column.	Hodh ech Chargui
longitude	float64	Source column.	-7.02341
latitude	float64	Source column.	15.6651
cpcv2	string	Source column.	P21111AA
product	string	Source column.	Beef (Fresh bovine meat)
source_document	string	Source column.	Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Mauritania, Price
period_date	string	Source column.	2009-03-31
price_type	string	Source column.	Retail
product_source	string	Source column.	Local
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	kg
unit_type	string	Source column.	Weight
currency	string	Source column.	MRU
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	50.0
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2002
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2002
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2002
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	FEWS NET
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data for Mauritania
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	9d6bad8b-c7de-40ab-b63a-44646da6a102
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	835654b5-117f-4920-a328-2982aa305ab9
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://fdw.fews.net/api/marketpricefacts/?dataset=FEWS_NET_Staple_Food_
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-18T00:06:00Z
readme	string	Source column.	``

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-cdfb7b5e")
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_weekly_fews_net_staple_food_price_data_cdfb7b5e_2002,
  title        = {Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data | Africa (Mauritania official open data)},
  author       = {FEWS NET},
  year         = {2002},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_mauritania_weekly_1506},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-cdfb7b5e}}
}

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/marketpricefacts/?dataset=FEWS_NET_Staple_Food_Price_Data&country=MR&format=xlsx&fields=website&end_date