Date: 2024
Type: Other
Creating a South Sudan without hunger and poverty : do agricultural cooperatives matter?
EUI, STG, Policy Brief, 2024/30
LUETH, Magook Daniel Mayom, Creating a South Sudan without hunger and poverty : do agricultural cooperatives matter?, EUI, STG, Policy Brief, 2024/30 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77388
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This brief explores the potential of agricultural cooperatives to alleviate poverty and hunger in the Republic of South Sudan. Going back to the historical development of agricultural cooperatives in Africa, it highlights the roles of farming cooperatives in a post-reform era driven by globalisation and trade liberalisation. South Sudan faces significant challenges, including abject poverty and severe hunger affecting millions of people. By exploring the potential of agricultural cooperatives to boost food security in South Sudan, this brief underscores their role in providing collective risk management, access to essential assets and savings and credit services. It emphasises the connection between cooperatives and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), specifically SDG 1 and 2, which make reference to eradicating extreme poverty and zero hunger. It concludes by proposing policy measures that can help enhance the impact of agricultural cooperatives in South Sudan. For example, initiatives like targeted training programmes for farmers, public-private partnerships (PPPs), local sourcing of seeds and relief food from farms can encourage farmers to produce in bulk and improve access to markets and credit lines to boost local food production and enhance rural development programmes.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77388
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/4121666
ISBN: 9789294666123
ISSN: 2600-271X
Series/Number: EUI; STG; Policy Brief; 2024/30
Publisher: European University Institute
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.