Concept information
Preferred term
DOI/USGS/ADDS
Definition
- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) is an information system designed to identify problems in the food supply system that potentially lead to famine, flood, or other food-insecure conditions, in sub-Saharan Africa. FEWS NET is a multi-disciplinary project that collects, analyzes, and distributes ... regional, national and sub-national information to decision makers about potential or current famine or flood situations, allowing them to authorize timely measures to prevent food-insecure conditions in these nations. Countries with FEWS NET representatives are Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Somalia, (southern) Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. The purpose of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is to strengthen the abilities of foreign countries and regional organizations to manage the risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information. The FEWSNET project was established with the goal of reducing the incidence of drought- or flood-induced famine by providing decision makers with timely and accurate information on conditions that may require intervention. Summary provided by http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/adds/ (en)
Broader concept
- USGS (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/824da961-c813-4d1c-acac-50dc07cca571
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