02/03/2017 FEWS NET special report: Illustrating the extent and severity of the 2016 Horn of Africa drought http://www.fews.net/east-africa/special-report/february-3-2017

02/14/2017 McNally, A., et al.: A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications, Sci. Data, 4, 170012, doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.12, 2017.

6/23/2017 new information added re: Central Asia snow modeling

10/1/2017 Central Asia snow modeling for USGS & FEWS NET transitioned to LIS7

12/1/2017 FLDAS products will be used by the new Earth Observations for Food Security and Agriculture Consortium (EOFSAC; http://eofsac.org/)

4/9/2018 Speed talk "New Tools for Monitoring Surface Water Availability" was presented at the All-FEWS NET meeting in Casablanca, Morocco.

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