electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-regional-report-on-food-security-and-nutrition-in-west-afr-3ce58b60

Regional Report on Food Security and Nutrition in West Africa and the Sahel 2024 | Africa (Mali official open data)

218 rows - 1 Africa country - 2024 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Mali 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: Regional Report on Food Security and Nutrition in West Africa and the Sahel 2024
• Publisher: Food Security Information Network
• Resource: FSIN-CILSS_RRSAN.xlsx
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MLI	218	2024	2024	Mali

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.	94d8ef18-b802-448e-9c92-afa6245cb36b:readme:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	MLI
country_name	category	Country name.	Mali
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	ReadMe
year	Int64	Observation year.	2024
year_of_reference	float64	Source column.	``
the_data_reported_in_the_grfc_are_usually_referring_to_t	string	Source column.	The data available for the countries/territories are available and meet
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2024
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2024
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2024
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	Food Security Information Network
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Regional Report on Food Security and Nutrition in West Africa and the Sa
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	FSIN-CILSS_RRSAN.xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	160b1bb3-450d-413e-8a83-2dda2486a951
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	94d8ef18-b802-448e-9c92-afa6245cb36b
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/160b1bb3-450d-413e-8a83-2dda2486a951/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-13T10:40:31Z
countries_territories	string	Source column.	``
availability_of_data	string	Source column.	``
major_food_crisis	string	Source column.	``
source	string	Source column.	``
pupulation_group_geographical_area_analysed	string	Source column.	``
total_country_population	float64	Source column.	``
population_analysed	float64	Source column.	``
pop_analysed_of_tot_country_pop	float64	Source column.	``
analysis_period	string	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_3_or_above	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_3_or_above_2	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_1	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_1_2	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_2	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_2_2	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_3	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_3_2	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_4	float64	Source column.	``
population_in_phase_4_2	float64	Source column.	``
population_phase_5	float64	Source column.	``
population_phase_5_2	float64	Source column.	``
primary_driver	string	Source column.	``

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-regional-report-on-food-security-and-nutrition-in-west-afr-3ce58b60")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MLI"]

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_mali_regional_report_on_food_security_and_nutrition_in_west_afr_3ce58b60_2024,
  title        = {Regional Report on Food Security and Nutrition in West Africa and the Sahel 2024 | Africa (Mali official open data)},
  author       = {Food Security Information Network},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/regional-report-on-food-security-and-nutrition-in-west-africa-and-the-sahel-2024},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-regional-report-on-food-security-and-nutrition-in-west-afr-3ce58b60}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) Food Security Information Network. 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 2026-08-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/160b1bb3-450d-413e-8a83-2dda2486a951/resource/94d8ef18-b802-448e-9c92-afa6245cb36b/download/cilss-master.xlsx