A region suffering from food shortages: South Sudan

Sudan is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa

• True

• False

Match the following

• 40% of the population

• 2011

• Female illiteracy

• 12.6 million

• High dependency on farming(workforce)

• Short of food

• The country split from Sudan

• 65%

• Population

• 70%

Aid workers stopped WFA assistance as it was too dangerous.

• False

• True

Physical factors

• Diseased water - cholera and typhoid

• Long-term decline of rainfall

• Soil degradation

• Pests and bad weather failed crops

• Cheaper Imports

Social factors contributing to food shortages

• Female illiteracy

• High population growth

• Disease

• Overgrazing and land erosion.

Economic factors creating food shortages

• high dependency on farming

• High military spending $1bn 

• 50-year civil war

• Imports from Uganda that is expensive

Solutions to the food shortage:

• Teaching women sh preservation even using bones to create soup

• FAO Project that rehabilitates those flooded on the Malarial river and improves watermelon growth

• Red cross Emergency relief air drops food.

• UN food programme delivers food.

South Sudan is:

• HIC

• LIC

• NEE

• BRIC

after splitting, the South is much ......... than the North

• richer

• poorer

• no change

Bombings threaten WHICH border communities

• Soleb

• Khartoum

• Omdurman

  Tomb

• Nuba Mountains