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
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The CSRF Research Repository aims to support greater contextual knowledge for policy makers, programme managers, and implementers by providing a searchable repository of research, analysis, and resources, and providing periodic updates on new research and analysis.
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 case study examines how alternative approaches to rinderpest eradication evolved in the complex emergency context of southern Sudan. The researchers also explore how initial experiences informed the establishment of a large scale community based animal health worker (CAHW) system. Although the case study is limited to experiences in southern Sudan, these findings have implications for UN interventions in other complex emergencies in Africa and elsewhere. Among other findings, the authors report that: The existing…
This study from 2002, commissioned by Save the Children UK, investigated whether or not there was justification for aid agencies operating in Bahr el Ghazal to continue providing free aid inputs, considering changes in the political situation. Found in the Sudan Open Archive.
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 investigates the 1998 food crisis in Sudan and reveals how the fault lies primarily with Sudanese government and militias and opposition forces that precipitated the famine and deliberately diverted or looted food from the starving or blocked relief deliveries. Download
The purpose of this book is to document some of the famine crimes committed in Sudan, as well as to evaluate relief programmes and to identify political conditions that create famine or make its prevention possible.
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 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.
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