This article discusses South Sudan’s history and politics of water security from 1959 to present. It argues that South Sudan, as a new independent state, faces a number of challenges, not only with Sudan over border demarcation, Abyei, and the potential resumption of Jonglei Canal, but also with the 11 Nile Basic Countries over sharing and management of Nile Basin, with Sudan and Egypt on one side and the rest on another. It concludes that…
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This report from 2008 explores Commodity Markets and in relation to that food security in Southern Sudan during the interim period (2005-2008). Download
This report from 2007 assesses several critical environmental issues – such as land degradation, deforestation and the impacts of climate change – that threaten Sudan’s prospects for long-term peace, food security and sustainable development. Download
This paper (2007) examines the future of food security in Sudan by reviewing, and extrapolating from, recent patterns of trade and conflict. The paper considers important (and ostensibly encouraging) economic data and analyses some of the underlying political and economic processes driving food insecurity in Sudan. Link to publication
This article contains the proceedings on a regional workshop of wild indigenous foods held in Kenya in 2001 to extend lessons and information on South Sudan while examining similar work in the region. It is an outgrowth of a USAID funded study on indigenous wild food plants in South Sudan to provide better information on the tremendous resource base in southern Sudan in attaining food security that was meant to provide donors with a better…
In the last few years, a number of different research and data collection activities in the field of indigenous food plants have been undertaken in southern Sudan. To date, three studies have been carried out: Save the Children and World Food Program (WFP) supported an independent study of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile, Lakes and the Ironstone Plateau; UNICEF carried out a similar study in eastern and western Equatoria, parts of Upper Nile and Bahr…
This document from 1998 describes the six main food economy areas of southern Sudan and summarizes information on food security. Found in the Sudan Open Archive.
This report reviews Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), with a particular focus on the relationship between OLS’s creation of humanitarian space, and the flow of assistance to war-affected populations. It sets out to assess and analyse the effectiveness of the OLS modus operandi in meeting the needs of war-affected civilians. Download
This article analyzes the main causes of famine, drought, desertification, the food market, with examples from the 1984/85 famine in the Sudan. The food security situation is scrutinized from both a natural and a societal point of view. The close connection between climatic variations and food production and the myth of desertification are demonstrated. Link to publication
This report explores food need and production capability in rural areas of South Sudan in 1990.
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