Due to recent history of war, civil strife, extreme poverty and unrest, detailed studies on the impact of climate change in South Sudan are scarce. Focusing on the fisheries in the Sudd region of South Sudan, this article aims at informing on the impact that the substantially warmer and drier weather has had on their work. The research included direct data collection among fishers and agro-pastoralists, across 28 villages in upper Sudd, to identify both…
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This article explores the intersection between water, energy, and food system in South Sudan, by investigating the shift in environmental narratives from pre-2011 South Sudan to modern day. The paper argues that the drivers of the food insecurity in the country could be partly linked to the disconnect between the past environmental narratives and today’s aspiration shaped by political and economic power dynamics. Finally, the paper provides insights on how the water – energy -…
Amid compounded shocks faced by South Sudan – such as conflict, displacement, climate change, and recently protracted flooding, this analysis focused on alternative livelihood strategies of South Sudan’s pastoralist communities. In particular, the analysis provides an overview of the change in livelihood portfolio, and the social impacts this has. For instance, shifts in gender and social norms are being witnessed, as the traditional division of labor within pastoral and agropastoral livelihood systems are forcibly being…
Key Messages: • Another major flood event is likely to occur in South Sudan over the second half of 2024, according to government officials, UN agencies, and independent research groups, threatening to deepen an already severe humanitarian crisis. Though piecemeal hydrological data enable only a rough prediction of the floods’ scale and whereabouts, humanitarian actors are planning for a scenaio in which more than three million people are affected and 2.4 million are in need…
SUMMARY South Sudan’s independence in 2011 launched a wave of optimism among South Sudanese and international observers alike. In the intervening years, however, many South Sudanese have known only hardship, as the gains of independence have failed to materialize. Political instability frequently turns violent, despite continuous efforts to broker peace. Recurrent setbacks have eroded trust among the population while raising concerns of state collapse among international partners.(1) Thirteen years on, the population in South Sudan…
Using the nexus lens, this brief discusses the drivers and the impact of flooding on local communities in South Sudan, including peace, health, livelihoods and governance. The brief also identifies and number of food response efforts and related perceptions of communities towards them. The brief provides a set of suggestions on how to enhance coordination on flood response though integrating humanitarian, peace and development nexuses into flood response in the country. Read more here
In common with many other African countries, the Republic of South Sudan is increasingly experiencing devastating floods linked to climate change. The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and El Niño regulate the climate of Equatorial Eastern Africa. In 2019, a dipole warming in the western Indian Ocean, worsened by climate change, created higher than average evaporation off the African coastline. This water vapour fell inland as rainfall over Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan and South Sudan, causing…
South Sudan has a diverse array of ecosystems, rich biodiversity in both flora and fauna, and an abundance of natural resources, including large areas of natural forests, considerable water sources and deposits of petroleum, gold and other minerals. The majority of the population in South Sudan are dependent on natural resources for subsistence livelihoods, particularly poorer and more vulnerable communities in rural areas. A combination of a shift to over-use of natural resources due to…
ABSTRACT Many places affected by violent conflict are also those with the lowest capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change and, therefore, some the most vulnerable. Consequently, it is here where climate change most likely results in social tensions that could escalate into or sustain conflicts. This double burden of compounding conflict and climate risks suggests an urgent need for climate adaptation interventions. However, so far adaptation agendas are often poorly aligned with…
As flooding becomes an increasingly common and problematic phenomenon in East Africa, this article provides an overview of community engagement strategies to cope with its effects in Bor in Jonglei State. With the highest rate of flooding in the country, communities in Bor County have had to identify copying mechanisms in the face of flood disaster, among which notable positive ones are diversification of livelihoods, use of traditional knowledge as a weather forecast prediction method,…
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