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October 6, 2014
Food Security Situation
Sudan is classified as a least developed and low-income food-deficit country. The U.N. Development Program’s 2014 Human Development Index ranks Sudan 166 out of 187 countries. Approximately 1.2 million children are acutely malnourished and 6.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
Food insecurity in Sudan is attributed to conflict-generated displacements, resultant loss of assets, limited access to agricultural land, reduced cultivation during the last and current agricultural seasons, and limited income-generating activities. High staple food prices and the influx of more than 115,500 refugees from South Sudan since the conflict erupted there in December 2013 are additional drivers of food insecurity.
- A strong national harvest during the main 2014-2015 agricultural season—projected to be about 30 percent higher than the 5 year average—has improved access to food in most parts of Sudan, with approximately 3.5 million people currently food insecure. However, high levels of acute food insecurity are likely to persist in Darfur, South Kordofan, and Blue Nile, especially among displaced populations, due to ongoing insecurity, widespread displacement and reduced access to agricultural lands.
Food Assistance Programs
The Office of Food for Peace (FFP) now targets over 2.2 million food-insecure Sudanese in Darfur, Blue Nile, South Kordofan, and Abyei as well as South Sudanese residing in Sudan.
FFP partners with international agencies including the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) and the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to provide assistance to internally displaced persons, refugees, returnees’ host communities, and conflict-affected populations, as well as to distribute ready-to-use therapeutic foods to acutely malnourished children. The goals are to save lives, reduce seasonal food insecurity, stabilize nutrition rates, and restore the livelihoods of vulnerable populations. Assistance includes in-kind food from the U.S., local and regional purchase of food, vouchers and cash transfers.
Food for Peace Contributions
|U.S. Dollars||Metric Tons|
|Fiscal Year 2014||$200.2 million||181,994 MT|
|Fiscal Year 2013||$186.6 million||162,541 MT|
|Fiscal Year 2012||$175.4 million||150,072 MT|
|Fiscal Year 2011+||$209.1 million||189,140 MT|
|Fiscal Year 2010++||$308.2 million||322,130 MT|
FIscal Year 2014 Contribution Breakdown:
|U.S. Dollars||Metric Tons|
|Title II Development||----||----|
|Title II Emergency||$159.7 million||153,436 MT|
|Emergency Food Security Program (EFSP)||$40.5 million||28,558 MT|
Food Security Situation information provided by FEWS NET, WFP, UNHCR, and OFDA as of November 2014
+Fiscal Year 2011 includes contributions made to South Sudan before July 9, 2011.
++Fiscal Year 2010 represents funding and metric tonnage from Sudan and South Sudan
Last updated: December 29, 2014