electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-0c99ce8b

Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data | Africa (Mauritania official open data)

165,990 rows - 1 Africa country - 2002-2018 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Mauritania 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: Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data
• Publisher: FEWS NET
• Resource: FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data for Mauritania
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MRT	165,990	2002	2018	Mauritania

Indicators or Resource Contents

• mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-longitude-16addbe3 - Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data - longitude
• mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-latitude-ef3251d9 - Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data - latitude
• mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-value-1005aee9 - Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data - value

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-longitude-16addbe3
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data - longitude
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	MRT
country_name	string	Country name.	Mauritania
year	Int64	Observation year.	2009
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	-7.02341
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	Mauritania
dimension_market	string	Source dimension.	Adel Bagrou
dimension_admin_1	string	Source dimension.	Hodh ech Chargui
dimension_cpcv2	string	Source dimension.	P21111AA
dimension_product	string	Source dimension.	Beef (Fresh bovine meat)
dimension_source_document	string	Source dimension.	Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Mauritania, Price
dimension_price_type	string	Source dimension.	Retail
dimension_product_source	string	Source dimension.	Local
dimension_unit	string	Source dimension.	kg
dimension_unit_type	string	Source dimension.	Weight
dimension_currency	string	Source dimension.	MRU
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2002
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2002
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2002
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	FEWS NET
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data for Mauritania
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	9d6bad8b-c7de-40ab-b63a-44646da6a102
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	944249b3-db69-473c-8519-9b0469490341
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://fdw.fews.net/api/marketpricefacts/?dataset=FEWS_NET_Staple_Food_
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-18T00:06:00Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-0c99ce8b")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MRT"]

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_mauritania_mauritania_weekly_fews_net_staple_food_price_data_0c99ce8b_2018,
  title        = {Mauritania Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data | Africa (Mauritania official open data)},
  author       = {FEWS NET},
  year         = {2018},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_mauritania_weekly_1506},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritania-mauritania-weekly-fews-net-staple-food-price-data-0c99ce8b}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) FEWS NET. 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 2026-08-18 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://fdw.fews.net/api/marketpricefacts/?dataset=FEWS_NET_Staple_Food_Price_Data&country=MR&format=csv&fields=website&end_date