Nigeria - FEWSNET IPC Acute Food Security Classifications over Time: A Public Health and Food Security Synthesis Report with Corresponding Data

FEWS.net distributes current and historial shapefiles that characterize regions of program countries on the basis of IPC acute food security classification. These categories include: 1 - Minimal, 2 - Stressed, 3 - Crisis, 4 - Emergency, and 5 - Famine. The most recent Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) data sets can be found at: http://www.fews.net/data. Information about the IPC can be found at: http://www.ipcinfo.org/. 1) Historical and current data for West Africa were obtained from FEWS.net (downloaded 23 April 2018). 2) Data were clipped by UN OCHA boundaries for Nigeria, obtained from HDX data.humdata.org (downloaded 23 April 2018). Lisa Jordan assembled the Nigeria data set, but the original source is FEWS NET. Please acknowledge FEWS.net for present and historical data using the IPC system to classify acute food security. Consult FEWS NET or IPCInfo for documentation on appropriate display of IPC classes.