Online Food, Hunger and Public Health
Maps
Dr Chizuru Nishida
Coordinator
Nutrition Policy and Scientific Advice (NPU)
Department of Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD)
Documento
Curso Hist, 4018
Historia y Cultura de la Comida y la Alimentación
1. CARES National Interactive Map
http://ims2.missouri.edu/tool/maps/default.aspx
2. Food Atlas: http://guerrillacartography.net/home.htm
3. Food Miles Mapping: http://thefoodmap.org/
4. USDA: Food Access Atlas/Maps: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-
access-research-atlas.aspx
5. USDA Food Environment Atlas: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-
environment-atlas.aspx and
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-environment-atlas.aspx#.UgEHKmQ6VgI
6. How Stuff Works - World Food and Nutrition
Map: http://maps.howstuffworks.com/world-food-nutrition-map.htm
7. World Mapper: http://www.worldmapper.org/
8. Guerilla Cartography: http://guerrillacartography.net/home.htm
9. Maryland Food Systems Map: http://mdfoodsystemmap.org/ and
http://mdfoodsystemmap.org/map/
10. World Food Consumption: http://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/world-food-
consumption-map.htm
11. United States of Food: http://www.ediblegeography.com/united-states-of-food/
12. World Food Program Hunger Map: http://cdn.wfp.org/hungermap/
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13. World Food Program Interactive
Maps: http://one.wfp.org/country_brief/hunger_map/map/hungermap_popup/map_po
pup.html
14. World Health Organization Map Gallery: http://www.who.int/gho/map_gallery/en/
15. FAO Agro-Maps: http://kids.fao.org/agromaps/
16. FAO Hunger Portal: http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/
17. Food Maps of India: http://www.mapsofindia.com/indiaagriculture/foodcrops.htm
18. Maps of World: http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-maps/
19. Canadian Food
Map: http://www.canadianliving.com/food/cooking_school/the_great_canadian_food
_map_an_interactive_infographic.php
20. Cornell Foodshed Mapping Tool: http://css.cals.cornell.edu/extension/foodshed-
mapping.cfm
21. Feeding America, Map the Meal Gap: http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-
america/hunger-studies/map-the-meal-gap.aspx
22. Oxfam Food
Maps: http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/search/apachesolr_search/food%20map
23. Center for Investigative Reporting: http://cironline.org/reports/map-world-food-
statistics-2971
24. McGraw Hill World Atlas of Food: http://glencoe.mcgraw-
hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078806631/618256/World_Atlas_of_Food.pdf
25. ESRI Maps: http://www.esri.com/esri-news/maps
26. ArcGIS: http://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=food&t=content (food maps)
and http://www.arcgis.com/features/index.html (site home)
AID and Other Interventions:
1. Food Security Aid Map: http://foodsecurity.ngoaidmap.org/
2. IFAD also has maps: http://www.ifad.org/
Online Data Sets:
1. World Food Program Hunger Stats: http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
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2. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA): http://unocha.org/
3. UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/
4. UN Reliefweb: http://reliefweb.int/
5. FEWSNET has mapping data available for download, deep in region or country pages
6. GINI Dataset, World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI
7. Development Data: http://www.developmentdata.org/inequality.htm
8. e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions
(eLENA): http://www.who.int/elena/en/index.html
9. FAO Stats (good for commodities): http://faostat.fao.org/
10. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series,
International: https://international.ipums.org/international/index.shtml
11. Cornell Food
Systems: http://guides.library.cornell.edu/content.php?pid=84833&sid=631485
12. From Deborah Rubin:
http://www.data.gov/food/community/food (see article about the launch earlier this year
at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/06/full-speed-ahead-open-ag-data).
13. USAID has recently started mapping some if its financial data (see below), which
includes information on agricultural programs and the companies/NGOs working on
them:With its new update to the Foreign Assistance Dashboard
(www.foreignassistance.gov), the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID) is releasing financial data and information in more detail than ever before.
For the first time, members of the public can download and search data showing
which vendors received Agency funding and how much they spent in a given time
period.
Additionally, the data is offered in the worldwide International Aid Transparency
Initiative (IATI) standard, ensuring common readability and interoperability with
reports from other aid funding sources. Making data available in an easily usable
format is part of the U.S. Government’s commitment to transparency, and the addition
of this data is a significant step in fulfilling the U.S. Government’s IATI
Implementation Plan.
The data is sourced from USAID financial systems, in line with Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) specifications, for the first three quarters of fiscal
year 2013. It will be updated quarterly, and reported to the Dashboard approximately
45 days after the end of each quarter.
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The goal of the Foreign Assistance Dashboard, which is hosted by the Department of
State, is to make all U.S. Government foreign assistance investments available in an
accessible and easy-to-understand format. With 50,000 records across 30 data fields,
including vendor name, title of award, and more, this is a significant step toward
making aid information more transparent.
The Department of State and USAID have collaborated on the Dashboard since its
launch in December 2010. USAID’s first set of data included the consolidated
Department of State and USAID budget and appropriation data from fiscal years
2006-2011, as available in the Congressional Budget Justification. In June 2012,
USAID released additional data, displaying obligations and disbursements by
operating unit and sector for fiscal years 2009-2011. Last December, these data was
updated for fiscal year 2012 and allowed USAID data for download in XML format.
We have now expanded on this data with this latest release.
To download the data set, visit www.foreignassistance.gov, which also contains
extensive documentation and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Comments,
questions, or suggestions can be submitted through the Contact Us form on the site.
From Dr. Chizuro Nishida of WHO:
Thank you for your interest in the work of WHO. We have several database which may be of
your interest. One is the Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLIS) which brings
together all the nutrition databases we have in the WHO Department of Nutrition in an
interactive manner. NLIS also brings together existing databases in other agencies although
not interactively, but we update those data every few months, so if there are updated data
available in those databases in other agencies, they will then be incorporated. Please see the
NLIS site (http://www.who.int/nutrition/nlis/en/index.html), for more information. Using
these data, NLIS provides country nutrition profile as well
(http://apps.who.int/nutrition/landscape/report.aspx).
Another database which may be of your interest is the Global Database on the
Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINS) which was launched in November 2012. GINA
contains 2 components. One relates to food and nutrition related policies in the countries and
the other related to nutrition programmes and interventions which are being implemented in
the countries. Please see the GINA site (http://www.who.int/nutrition/gina/en/index.html),
for more information.
Then there is another system which I would also like to inform you although it does not have
any mapping feature and that is the WHO e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions
(eLENA). It contains the information on evidence-informed nutrition interventions including
WHO guidelines and recommendations as well as their evidence bases (i.e. systematic
reviews). We were informed that more and more people are using eLENA for teaching their
university courses. We are currently in a process of cleaning up and upgrading the site to
improve the usability. The eLENA site is http://www.who.int/elena/en/index.html.
Please also visit the site of our Department (http://www.who.int/nutrition/en/) where you can
find more information including the Landscape Analysis work
(http://www.who.int/nutrition/landscape_analysis/en/index.html).
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Hope this will be of help.
With best regards,
Chizuru Nishida
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Dr Chizuru Nishida
Coordinator
Nutrition Policy and Scientific Advice (NPU)
Department of Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD)
World Health Organization (WHO)
20, Avenue Appia
CH - 1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Tel:
+ 41.22.791.3317 / 5474
Mobile: + 41.79.249.3549
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