This article contains the proceedings on a regional workshop of wild indigenous foods held in Kenya in 2001 to extend lessons and information on South Sudan while examining similar work in the region. It is an outgrowth of a USAID funded study on indigenous wild food plants in South Sudan to provide better information on the tremendous resource base in southern Sudan in attaining food security that was meant to provide donors with a better…
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CSRF Research Repository
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 guide is a compilation of some of the forms of descriptive analysis that WFP and partners have undertaken since 1994.
This paper sheds light on the extent to which land use policy has contributed to the vulnerability of otherwise better-off sections of rural people in the Horn, viz. the pastoralists. The report refers to Sudan including then Southern Sudan. Download
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 paper aims to explore the gap between the “objective” global concept of poverty and the subjective perception of wealth in Dinka communities. Link to Publication
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 article analyzes the main causes of famine, drought, desertification, the food market, with examples from the 1984/85 famine in the Sudan. The food security situation is scrutinized from both a natural and a societal point of view. The close connection between climatic variations and food production and the myth of desertification are demonstrated. Link to publication
This article traces the emergence of different definitions of “wealth” among Nuer and analyses their centrality. Link to publication
This report explores food need and production capability in rural areas of South Sudan in 1990.
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