Abstract This chapter examines diversification into fishing by pastoral and agropastoral households and communities in Kenya and South Sudan and how and when this diversification overlaps with sedentarization. Various factors, including climatic events, conflict, privatization, development schemes, and national policies, can result in a decrease in the strategic mobility that is central to pastoral success and resilience. Diversification of economic activities may also cause households or some household members to settle, and, although limited, the…
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This article provides a multidimensional report of the persistent farmers-herders conflict in South Sudan, delving into its historical background, root causes, far-reaching consequences, potential prevention/management strategies and recommendations for actors and policymakers in South Sudan.
This report presents the findings of a study commissioned by FAO, IGAD CEWARN, IGADCBDFU and Interpeace, undertaken between November 2021 and April 2022, and aimed at analysing resource-based in the Karamoja Cluster. The report provides a conflict analysis of the border area spanning across Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, and Uganda, and identifies key drivers of violence – including competition over access to pasture, water, cattle rustling. These drivers are also exacerbated by climate change, unemployment,…
Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), in partnership with Solidarité International (SI) conducted an assessment on conflict sensitivity and the challenges faced by communities affected by the Sudan crisis, and particularly IDPs who are stranded in Malakal and Paloch. As a result, this report assesses their current humanitarian situation, and identifies several challenges faced by these IDPs, including food insecurity, emergence of gang violence, and poor sanitation. To address the challenges, the report provides recommendations on how to…
This report assesses the intersection between the global food crisis and food security programming, drawing from the experience of multiple countries – including South Sudan. The report provides a set of recommendations and ways forward to overcome some of the challenges presented, and enhance food security programming in a gender- and conflict-sensitive manner. Read here
A convergence of entrenched insecurity and climate change is having serious socio-economic implications in South Sudan where humanitarian conditions, including food insecurity, continue to deteriorate. In 2022, 8.9 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance, out of a population of 11 million. In 2022, the World Food Programme (WFP) provided food assistance to nearly 6 million people. This food assistance has direct and indirect impacts on peace and conflict dynamics. This has led the…
Activists and scholars are seeking to end famine by promoting international legal accountability for starvation. This article deepens our understanding of the relationship between the politics of famine and law by observing the ongoing prevalence and power of legal norms and institutions during times of famine. It reveals the widespread use of hunger courts in famine-prone South Sudan and their role in legally enforcing social networks that provide for the most vulnerable. Based on analysis…
The Protection Cluster has recorded an increase in incidents of rights violations associated with the current foodcrisis that is intensifying in South Sudan. In addition, food distribution as well as agencies engaged in these effortsare at significant risk of having their operations disrupted and their staff put in danger by sub-national andintercommunal violence, bureaucratic impediments, and physical constraints due to unprecedented flooding,combined with poor road conditions. The food security crisis in South Sudan is worsening…
Examples from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the DRC, Nigeria, South Sudan and Sudan Key findings • Food-related livelihood activities such as tending fields, foraging for food or fetching water make women and girls vulnerable to conflict-related sexual violence attacks in conflicts where conflict parties use such violence. • The scarcity of food during conflict forces women and girls to travel further from their villages in search of food or water, increasing the likelihood of their…
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