The Acute Food Insecurity Classifications domain provides Food Insecurity Classification (FIC) data as an indicator to identify famine and determine the severity of food security and nutrition crises. This data is compatible with the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) system.

The Acute Food Insecurity Classifications domain is broken into two sections:

1. Filter Data

The Acute Food Insecurity Classifications domain includes the following options for filtering data:

• Start date and End date: Filters Data Series by the period dates of all Data Points within the series. All Data Series with at least one Data Point that has a period date inside the date range will be displayed.

• Geographic area: Filters by location of the FIC data. This filter aggregates items into multi-level lists (e.g., Admin 1 units are aggregated into countries, which are aggregated into regions). Selecting the higher-level item in the list will automatically select all the lower-level items in the list.

• Scale: Filers by the food security classification scale used, e.g., Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) scale versions 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1.

• Scenario: There are two scenario options available:

  • Best Available: Shows the current situation for all periods. Only the most recent near and medium term projections will be included.

  • All: Shows all scenarios for all periods, including near and medium term projections from past periods.

• Data usage policy: Filters by the data usage policy assigned to the Data Series.

2. Data Visualization and Export

Visualize

The Acute Food Insecurity Classifications domain currently includes a Table visualization. The Metadata tab contains descriptions and definitions of the metadata included in the visualizations and export data.

Customize Export

The Acute Food Insecurity Classifications domain includes the following options:

• File format: Choose from one of the available file formats. This will apply to both downloads and refreshable links.

• Download: Provides a download of a static dataset. This will export only the data series that you have selected.

• Copy link: Copies a refreshable link that connects directly to the FEWS NET Data Warehouse database server, allowing Excel, your browser, or another application to automatically fetch data from the server whenever the link is accessed.