Workstation (FENIX) Portal

Welcome to the Workstation (FENIX - Food security and Early warning Network for Information eXchange) Portal

The FENIX Workstation is a web-based food security oriented information system that helps users to visualize, harmonize, process and disseminate spatial and non-spatial information directly through the internet.

FENIX can handle different types of data and share them through the Workstation network and users can customize tools and interfaces to better reflect data management and analysis needs. Read more ...

FENIX uses open-source technology to avoid licensing constraints and to allow free distribution.

Country Level Activities

Bangladesh

Haiti

Building a National Food Security and Early Warning Network

Re-establishment of the agriculture and food security information system and network

For more than one year, the FENIX team has worked together with the FAO National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme (NFPCSP) to assist the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food in information management, sharing and dissemination.

Since May 2010, the FENIX team has strengthened the existing capacity of the CNSA and other national institutions in food security data analysis and information management.
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FENIX Workstation installations so far:

Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food
The Department of Agricultural Marketing of the Ministry of Agriculture (DAM)
Monitoring and Information System Management Division of the Directorate General of Food (MISM)

FENIX helps to reinforce with adequate technology and expertise the links between agencies that are part of the national network for food security and early warning.

FENIX Workstation installations so far:

Coordination Nationale de la Sécurité Alimentaire (CNSA) (HQ) - Petion Ville
ACDI/VOCA - Jacmel
AVSI - Les Cayes
Rassemblement organisation peyisan GA (ROPAGA) - Jérémie
World Vision- Hinche
UN World Food Programme (WFP) - Cap Haïtien
Plan Haïti - Fort Liberté

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FENIX Workstation Tools

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Haiti	Rainfall	Crop Calendar
Food Security Emergency Tool of the FAO Haiti Emergency Initiatve	Estimated Rainfall at 10 Day Intervals	Crop Calendar for Major Crops by Country
Interactive and Downloadable Maps Departmental Crop Calendars RSS News	National Administrative Level 1 Administrative Level 2 Data from 1998 (Africa) and 1974 (all others)	Each crop season is identified by 3 stages: Sowing/Planting Growing Harvesting
More Information Provides information on food security-related information on Haiti (e.g. livelihood, market prices, landuse, crop calendar, etc.) as dynamic and static maps and charts. It also collects Haiti news through RSS-feeds.	More Information Helps to identify rainfall-deficit zones using satellite rainfall estimates and rainfall data collected from a network of raingauges. Users can select the countries/provinces, the period of interest and create a rainfall report.	More Information Data is provided as charts (downloadable as images) and tables (downloadable in Excel or PDF). Each crop season is characterized by the Start Month and Decade (10-daily period) and the End Month and Decade (10-daily period).