Food Security and Livelihood

This is to help the ordinary farmers to earn their livelihood, produce enough food to feed their families, avoid malnutrition and sell some for income, Sensitize the community to grow cash crops for income and future earnings. Farmers training for maximal use of the land and soil conservation; hunger and malnutrition relief; building cooperatives; animal husbandry, crop growth.

South Sudan has agricultural potential, but due to challenges in her infrastructure and lack of technology, growing enough food to feed everyone in the young nation has never been easy. More still, although Western Equatoria State (Yambio) is a bread basket for the whole nation, the farmers lack the technical capacity for increased crop production. Otherwise, they are all at the level of subsistent farming, producing mainly for their individual household’s consumptions with a very small percentage for the market.