Famine Early Warning Systems Network

FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, is a leading global provider of timely, accurate, evidence-based, and transparent early warning information and analysis of current and future acute food insecurity. FEWS NET informs decisions on humanitarian planning and responses in the world’s most food-insecure countries.

FEWS NET coverage map (2026)
FEWS NET coverage map (2026)

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) created FEWS NET in 1985 in response to famines in East and West Africa and a critical need for better and earlier warning of potential food security crises.

For four decades, FEWS NET and its partners have continued to monitor the increasingly complex factors influencing food insecurity, such as weather and climate, conflict, agricultural production, markets and trade, and nutrition. Considered together within the context of local livelihoods, FEWS NET provides integrated food security analysis that forecasts outcomes six to twelve months in advance.

FEWS NET currently sits under the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response.

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