FAO emergencies and resilience

Sudan

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48.2 million
country population

 

25.6 million people
in high acute food insecurity (June–September 2024), including 755 000 people in Catastrophe

 

12.3 million people
displaced, of whom 9.5 million since mid-April 2023

Famine conditions confirmed in Zamzam IDP camp, North Darfur

to assist 9 million people, FAO requires USD 104.1 million for 2024

The ongoing conflict in the Sudan has further exacerbated the food insecurity of people across the country already reeling from the impacts of civil unrest, displacement and an economic crisis. As a result, agriculture – the Sudan’s most important economic sector – continues to be significantly affected by input shortages, a drop in cultivated land and the deterioration of livestock services. FAO is working to significantly scale up crop production and livestock and fisheries support for vulnerable households to enhance local food production in the face of a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.

Highlights
News
Famine conditions in parts of Sudan: FAO urges at scale life-saving assistance to boost local food production
01/08/2024

In response to alarming new findings confirming famine conditions in parts of Darfur, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...

News
FAO and EU sign 47 million euro programme to enhance resilience and food security for pastoralists in Eastern Africa
30/07/2024

The programme is expected to directly benefit more than 100,000 households across Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, the Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda

News
Sudan is facing an unprecedented hunger catastrophe, say UN agency chiefs
27/06/2024

New data reveals that over 750,000 people are experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity with 25.6 million people in crisis levels of hunger

 
Key documents
08/2024

The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands contributed USD 28 million to the FAO project, "Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO): Building food system resilience in protracted crises", which was implemented from 1 October 2019 to 31 March 2023.

03/2024

With conflict raging since April 2023, the Sudan has rapidly become the world’s largest internal displacement crisis.

02/2024

This is the thirteenth update of the Monitoring food security in food crisis countries and territories with conflict situations, jointly produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to inform members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on critical food crises driven by conflict and insecurity.

 
 
Multimedia
Video
Escalating crises and hunger require urgent response, says FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol
14/02/2024

Acute hunger is escalating worldwide. The growing number of people impacted by pressing humanitarian crises in conflict-affected places like Gaza, Ukraine,...

Video
Action Against Desertification - Sudan
08/02/2021

Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) to restore drylands and degraded lands in...

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