README.md

Food Security Working Repo

Visualizing data to better monitor issues around food security

Below is a preliminary list of sources that we are exploring:

1. USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) (Includes ESR, GATS, and PSD data)
2. Maxar WeatherDesk (Coverage of our current data source)
3. Gro-Intelligence: Food Security Tracker (API example query)
4. Earthrise News (adding a food security label)
5. National Weather Service: Climate Prediction Center (data product page)
6. Famine Early Warning System (API example query)
7. USGS/USAID Famine Early Warning System Network (All data, remote servers)
8. UN Global Crisis Response Group (PDF of recent report with infographics)
9. UN Food Price Index (CSV Link)

More data recommended by FAS:

10. Global Agricultural Information Network
11. Circulars Publication (information on PSD data)
12. Global Agricultural & Disaster Assessment System (GADAS)
13. Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS)
14. UN Comtrade Database
15. Export Sales Query System
16. Crop Explorer
17. Data Users Meeting

Current Work Products

• Notebook exploring USDA data
• Streamlit prototype USDA data explorer
• Notebook exploring a few other datasets
• Notebook exploring USDA fertilizer data (data published in 2019)