Custom datasets from our project partners
Project Bread
Household food security data for Boston and the US
Red Tomato
local agriculture and market data
MAPC
Boston and Massachuestts-specific data
US Data - Surveys, aggregated data
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Raw survey data, many different data sets
US Dept. of Agriculture Survey Food Security survey data
Raw survey data
US dep. of Agriculture - food access atlas
Aggregated state- and countylevel data, convenient format
MAPC Food security related data sets Massachusetts
Food insecurity rates, meal gap, foodstamps
Country-level Indicators
The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN)
Country-level scores for climate change vulnerability and readines along the dimensions of Water, Agriculture, Health, Infrastructure, Food, Ecosystems
World bank data catalog
Country-level data on sustainable development goals (SDGs), agriculture, poverty, climate change …
UN Comtrade Database
International exports and imports of goods, commodities, agricultural products.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization Database
The databases within FAO cover a broad spectrum of topics related to food security and agriculture
Economist Food Security Index
Dataset prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Downloadable excel model
Unicef datasets
Data on child health, malnutrition and mortality
Data aggregators
Food security-related web portals linking relevant data resources.
Food Security Portal
“The project brings together international, regional, and country-level data, news, and research aimed at meeting countries’ immediate food security needs, as well as building long-term global food security.”
US National Library of Medicine Public Health Portal
Datasets related to public health
Accuweather API ($25 for 1 mo)
Information and reports (no machine readable data)
Food and Agriculture Organization report
Unicef report state of food security
Boston Food access lists and maps
Food resource maps and lists - in pdf format
Project Bread Massachusetts
Statistics and infographics, but no datasets
Massachusetts Agricultural Census
Fine-grained data, but tables mostly embedded in websites
Massachusetts Food Systems Plan