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Hunger crisis deepens in South Sudan with returnees fleeing war and children hit hardest.
Juba, – Alarming new food security data from South Sudan shows that 57 per cent of the population will be acutely food insecure through the 2025 lean season with returnees fleeing the war in Sudan and young children facing some of the highest levels of hunger and malnutrition as economic pressures, climate extreme...
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Child Food Poverty
Across the world, millions of parents and families are struggling to provide nutritious and diverse foods that young children need to reach their full potential. Growing inequities, conflict, and climate crises, combined with rising food prices, the overabundance of unhealthy foods, harmful food marketing strategi...
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Increased Food Insecurity in South Sudan Exacerbates Threats to the Lives of 3.1Million Children in Urgent Need of Protection
Child protection and food security practitioners in South Sudan urge donors, government, and the humanitarian community to ensure that the food security crisis does not threaten the lives and protection of girls and boys., The humanitarian community, donors, and government gathered in Juba this week to address the...
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Protecting Children in South Sudan’s Food Security Crisis
South Sudan due to compounding shocks, including flooding, ongoing conflict, displacement, and cost of living. The impact is expected to result in another year of livestock and crop losses and has eroded the livelihoods and coping strategies of vulnerable communities across the country. In order to address the int...
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Impact Evaluation for Resilience Learning in South Sudan
In 2020, 155 million people faced crisis-level or worse rates of food insecurity worldwide. Among them, as many as 115 million lived in countries affected by conflict or weather extremes. In 2021, in South Sudan, close to 70 percent of the population – that is, 8.3 million people – needed some form of humanitarian...
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South Sudan launches parliamentary alliance for food security and nutrition
Joint UNICEF, WFP, FAO, and TNLA Press Release , , Juba, 11 November 2022, - The United Nations and the South Sudan Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) today launched the South Sudan Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. As a member of the Eastern African Parliament Alliance for ...
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United Nations calls for greater efforts to tackle food insecurity and malnutrition in South Sudan
JOINT FAO/UNICEF/WFP NEWS RELEASE, , Juba, 18 October 2022 –, The United Nations is calling for concerted efforts to address the root causes of food insecurity and malnutrition in South Sudan. Severe, multiyear flood events, surging subnational violence, and economic pressures are pushing more people into worseni...
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With rising costs and reducing food security mothers battle to keep their children well nourished
When 35 year-old, Vivian received the ultrasound for her sixth pregnancy in a clinic inside the Malakal Protection of Civilians (POC) camp in the Northern part of South Sudan, she was surprised when they told her she was having twins. When she gave birth in July 2021, Vivian and her whole community were even more...
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On World Food Day, Government and United Nations call for more sustainable agri-food systems in South Sudan
15 October 2021, Juba -, The United Nations is calling for action across all sectors to support the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) join the Ministr...
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USAID provides $ 25M funding to UNICEF in the fight against malnutrition in South Sudan
JUBA, South Sudan, 9 June 2021 –, Today, 97,600 cartons of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) were handed over by USAID to UNICEF. These supplies are part of an overall funding contribution of USAID of $ 25 million to prevent and fight malnutrition in South Sudan. The contribution of USAID comes timely as South ...
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South Sudan: expanded interventions of humanitarian actors generating hopeful results
28 May 2021, Juba, – Three United Nations organizations in South Sudan - the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) - said they had scaled up their responses in counties most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition in Jonglei, Wa...
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The People’s Republic of China is responding to the nutrition crisis in South Sudan.
JUBA, South Sudan 15 February 2021 –, Today, 14,056 Boxes of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) were handed over from the People’s Republic of China to UNICEF South Sudan. The country is in the middle of a nutrition crisis with an estimated 313,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in 2021...