The threat of an information blackout is looming over the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), one of the world’s leading data-monitoring systems for anticipating food crises and planning humanitarian responses. Created by the now-dismantled U.S. aid agency USAID and currently overseen by the U.S. State Department, the platform has weathered interruptions and political controversies before. Alarm bells rang again this summer after Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen disappeared from both the annual Peak Food Assistance Needs Outlook and the monthly Food Assistance Outlook reports.Seguir leyendo