The resilience of communities in South Sudan has declined and continued to be eroded since the eruption of conflict in late 2013. Compounded by repeated outbreaks of violent conflict, the deterioration of the food security situation and subsequent economic shocks have negatively affected households’ coping capacities and livelihoods.

Communities dependent on agriculture have seen their productive assets depleted, looted and destroyed, limiting their ability to recover and increasing their reliance on external aid. Two thirds of the population cannot access the food needed to cover their daily needs. This creates an opportunity for ACFO to engage in agricultural production and increase Food Security and nutrition (FSN) in the country to fight hunger. ACFO Resilience Strategy 2030, gives a guide for a multi-track approach to strengthening capacities depending on needs, vulnerability and access. ACFO’s Program Framework sets out priority areas to guide and support communities to bringing together the best local innovations and standard ecological practices for the agricultural nutrition transition in the country.

Therefore, to ensure sustainable increase in food production, ACFO have so far secured a large piece of Land (5 miles square) in Magwe county (Eastern Equatoria State), 7 miles in Maridi county (Western Equatoria State) for a sustainable increase in production and productivity of food crops along the value chain through institutional capacity building that will enable the producers to access suitable inputs and equipment, for corporative unions to sale crops to at a cheaper price and train them with knowledge and skills of crop production, post-harvest management and marketing. Emphasis is always placed on key Community Partnership (CP) and prioritize women and youth in the interventions.

ACFO also engages in the selection of commodities for enterprises and income generation which can increase average per capital agriculture-based income. We work with the relevant authorities and communities to support market development for selected commodities in the subsectors using the value chain development approach.