Food Security and Livelihood
The decades of civil war have strongly affected the state of local food production in South Sudan, the current crisis has compounded the problems. This made generations of South Sudanese to witness the destruction of their acres and yields, and was repeatedly driven away from their homesteads and farms. As a legacy of a life on the move, they have lost their faith in long-term agricultural production – and subsequently lost the necessary know-how too.
Children’s
Aid contributes to the mitigation measures and aims at a more stable food
production. This creates new opportunities for income generation. Children’s Aid encompassing a wide array of activities
customized to meet a community’s specific needs in building food security and
livelihood, our programs are designed to bolster agricultural production,
jumpstart local market activity, support micro-enterprise initiatives, and
otherwise enhance a vulnerable community’s access to sustainable sources of
food and income.
To determine what causing hunger in a given area, Children’s Aid carries out comprehensive evaluations by collecting and analyzing key data on local assets, resources, and livelihoods strategies. Our teams meet directly with community members to better understand local conditions and create a collaborative plan of action.
To determine what causing hunger in a given area, Children’s Aid carries out comprehensive evaluations by collecting and analyzing key data on local assets, resources, and livelihoods strategies. Our teams meet directly with community members to better understand local conditions and create a collaborative plan of action.
Through the activities of its partners, Children’s Aid contributes to a broad range of humanitarian operations and assists the most needy population groups with staple food. This allows them to bridge emergency periods of extreme food shortage. Among Children’s Aid’s partners, WFP is of foremost importance as the main provider of emergency food assistance in South Sudan. WFP also coordinates the food assistance by other UN agencies and NGOs.
Increasing food production and diversification
In order to address the risks of the persistent food insecurity and the strong dependence on imported food, Children’s Aid the local community at increasing and diversifying the local food production. In contrast to the countrywide emergency food assistance, Children’s Aid here concentrates in training farmers on food productions; these programmes are substantial to fighting food insecurity among internally displaced persons, returnees and other vulnerable population groups.
Income generation and extension services
Complementary, Children’s Aid aims to improve the livelihoods and enhance the self-subsistence capacities of the people of south Sudan. Especially Children’s Aid boosts the capacities of the local farmers in product marketing – and thus income generation – and develops the technical expertise of the State Authorities required for an effective extension service towards the farming population. This helps the farming communities to re-enter the production cycle and – finally – to enhance their food security.
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