Food Security in Sudan

Jane Kinninmont sent this across to us:

Recently Published Special Issue of Disasters
In Sudan, the full panoply of global change processes is veraciously being played out, to cause crisis or offer potential opportunity. Which way the pendulum swings depends on how the main actors on the ground choose to react. Famine, food insecurity and the supply of international food aid have been a constant part of the Sudan picture since the late 1960s but does it have to be that way?

This special issue of Disasters contains a selection of the bes! t papers presented at a unique forum, organised by the World Food Programme and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, and held in Khartoum in June 2006. The forum encouraged WFP-Sudan to think outside the box, to imagine alternative roles to the emergency-driven food-aid distribution which had come to dominate their Sudan operations in 2005/6.

WFP, along with the government of Sudan, is positioned to set an international example of what can be done with the tools at their disposal, to seize this opportunity and build a 21st century approach to the alleviation of food insecurity – to save lives and livelihoods. The papers in this special issue examine why such an approach is desperately needed and how it might be achieved.
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Table of contents:
Editorial: the future of WFP programming in Sudan Kirsten Gelsdorf, Peter Walker and Daniel Maxwell
Conflict, trade and the medium-term future of food security in Sudan David Keen and Vivian Lee
Global factors shaping the future of food aid: the implications for WFP Daniel Maxwell
Looking beyond food aid to livelihoods, p! rotection and partnerships: strategies for WFP in the Darfur statesHelen Young
Conflict, camps and coercion: the ongoing livelihoods crisis in Darfur Margie Buchanan-Smith and Susanne Jaspars
From food aid to livelihoods support: rethinking the role of WFP in eastern Sudan Sara Pantuliano
The future of food security in the Three Areas of Sudan Jason Matus
Food aid and development in souther n Sudan: implications of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement for response planning Buzz Sharp
Sub-regional integration in Sudan: the key to food security and recovery Brian D’Silva and Olivia Tecosky
Accelerating progress on salt iodisation in Sudan: time for action Ibrahim Bani