Building Resilience Against Hunger and Climate Change
When crops fail and floods rise, we support families through emergency food relief and sustainable livelihood programs, helping them adapt to a changing environment.
Agriculture development is a big priority of the government since over 80% of the population lives in rural areas and heavily rely on Agriculture for their livelihoods.
Assistance with farming and developing income-generating activities help people to settle, build sustainable livelihoods and sustainable economic growth. Since the majority of the people live in the rural areas, success in agricultural development will improve the livelihoods of the rural people by reducing poverty, increase sustainable livelihoods and create income opportunities for women and men, enhancing their food security; which is the country’s priority goals.
Effect of flood in Unity State of Leer county that the elderly women resorted in collecting lily water for food.
South Sudan had a number of livelihood and food security projects implemented by various international NGOs inform of social protection projects. The interventions are still operational in several communities include:
- Continued use of improved cultivation practices.
- Ox ploughing.
- Community led maintenance of access roads.
- Community management of storage facilities and mills.
- Production of seeds by farmer groups.
AEF would like to sustain these initiatives by identifying by and up scaled these local managed projects, as international organizations focus on other more pressing issues.