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Towards Food Security for All

Sue Lautze, PhD Representative South Sudan

NB: End of the rainy season

Bright Spots

• RSS Humanitarian Governance (floods, Jonglei,

Ministerial, RRC)

• Political Transitions (peaceful, new mandates)
• Oil flow resumption…towards “break even”
• High level engagements
• New Deal
• National Reconciliation
• UN Partnerships
• CAADP/CAMP
• Crop/Food Supply Assessment
• New Memberships – FAO, OIE
• Project impacts (e.g., SDC-funded FFS, next slide)

Highly Sustainable Successful completion of season-long learning Establishment of profitable Income-Generating Activities (IGA) Very strong leadership High sense of group cohesiveness Full attendance Group-developed innovations/investments Application of FFS/PFS practices to own production practices Establishment of Voluntary Savings and Loans Scheme (VSLS) surveillance of pests and diseases requiring institutional responses Limited to no need for oversight by Field School facilitator Not Yet Sustainable Failure to achieve learning objectives/to complete learning cycle Weak leadership High rate of non-attendance Disintegration of group membership No application of FFS/PFS practices to own production practices No innovation/investments Limited to no sense of group cohesiveness Unable to accurately identify (livestock, crop) pests & diseases Poor oversight by Field School facilitator

Challenges

Immediate

• Government austerity
• Criminality
• Staff capacity, health, well-

being & safety

• Conflict in Jonglei
• Floods
• Abyei
• Conflict (Political, NR)
• Pests, diseases
• Economic stress
• Renk
• Poor institutional memory
• Borders

Medium-Term

• Legacies of conflict,

underdevelopment, marginalization

• Land tenure
• Nascent institutions (ministries,

security, sector working groups, etc.)

• Infrastructure (storage, market, road)
• Human resource base
• Poverty
• Risk-blind development
• Dutch disease
• Regional ethnic tensions
• Insufficient development resources
• Supply-driven humanitarianism

7%-14%

Sub-Saharan Africa South Sudan

10%- 3% < 4%

20-40%- 10-15 %

Commercial off- take Mortality Herd size

South Sudan’s excess livestock mortality estimated at 1 million cattle and 3 million shoats annually, over and above average annual losses in SSA 1.5 - 3.5% 1 %

Annual growth

CAP 2014+

• 1 year appeal; 3 year strategy
• Immediate response; resilience; capacity

development

• FSL cluster: From 4.1 million to estimated 2.3-2.8

million people at risk? Assessments continue…

• FSL Cluster: More focus on resilience, especially

community-based

• Commitment to Government leadership?

Disproportionate Funding Within the FSL Cluster

64.4 35.6 77.3 23.0 85.5 14.5 93.1 6.9 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0 100.0 Food Assistance Livelihoods Food Assistance Livelihoods 2011 2012 Percent

Percent of Requested & Actual Funding

Request (%) Funding (%)

$405M

$132M

$227M $118M

New Deal Compact

• 15 benchmarks incl. “ag & economic diversification”
• Draft benchmark for year 1 (only 1 will be chosen):

– NR budget increased from 1% (2013/4 FY) to 4% (2014/5 FY); most allocated for activities & capital investment. – Land policy adopted, Land Act revised, Constitution amended, Agriculture Land Tenure policy and guideline developed by Dec 2014. – 600 extension workers trained (at least 100 female), positioned at each Boma to provide comprehensive extension services (crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to smallholder farmers (groups and individuals).

Government of the Republic of South Sudan

Agriculture Investment Planning

• Comprehensive Agriculture Master Plan (CAMP)
• Zonal Effort for Agriculture Transformation (ZEAT)
• CAMP + ZEAT = National Effort for Agriculture

Transformation (NEAT)

• Comprehensive African Agriculture Development

Plan (CAADP)

• South Sudan Development Initiative (SSDI); South

Sudan Development Plan (SSDP)

• Revised UNDAF
• Rome-based Agency Partnerships

UN Collaboration

• Rome Based Agencies – FAO-IFAD-WFP
• Scaling up Nutrition – FAO-UNICEF-WFP-WHO
• FAO-UNHCR (bio-fuels)
• FAO-UNEP (Peace Building Fund)
• FAO-UNEP-UNIDO (NAPA, GEF)
• FAO-UNIDO (livelihood skills)
• FAO-UNESCO-UNESCO (Pastoral skills, education)
• FAO-UNMISS – Prison farms; Livestock (health, conflict

management, advocacy); Logistics (air support for missions, limited store-to-store delivery); field housing; Coordination (state coordinators); Protection

• UNCT-UNMISS - Information (Senior Management Group;

Security Management Team; Mission retreat); Comparative advantage (analysis to inform UNDAF)

FAO O Re Reform

• rms

s in Pr Pract ctice ce

• Strategic Framework, Strategic Objectives
• Country Programming Framework (CPF)
• Integrating humanitarian and development
• Decentralization
• Global Resource Management System
• Value for Money/Accountability
• Partnerships (next slide)

FAO South Sudan CPF

• SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION Sustainable

production and productivity for food and nutrition security that preserves the natural resources base

• GROWTH/INCOME - Agriculture’s

Contribution to Economic Growth and Diversification

• RESILIENCE - Resilient Food and Nutrition

Security

Thank you Sue.Lautze@FAO.org