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STORY: WFP / SOUTH SUDAN FLOODS HUNGER
TRT: 3:16
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NUER / NATS
DATELINE: SEE SHOTLIST
7 OCTOBER 2022, LEER COUNTY, UNITY STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, aerial, Leer County, one of the areas worst affected by the flooding.
10 JUNE 2022, DUK COUNTY, JONGLEY STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
2. Various shots, WFP barge transporting food for displaced people.
This barge carrying 87 MT of food, navigated 162 km on the White Nile River and tributaries to reach remote villages on a man made island in Al-Sudd, one of the biggest swamps in the world.
5 OCTOBER 2022, LEER COUNTY, UNITY STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
3. Various shots, Nyadend Majok walks through what is left of her sorghum crops, after they were submerged by the floods. She had built a dyke around her home and crops but the floodwaters were too high, destroying her crops and killing 30 of her goats.
4. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyadeng Majok, farmer:
“All our food is ruined! You can see my sorghum crops. The floods bring hunger because they take all our food. If we have no food how can we survive?”
30 JUNE 2022, RUBKONA COUNTY, UNITY STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
5. Various shots, Meer Koch watering vegetables in a community vegetable garden supported by WFP. Meer is a widow with 7 children. She was injured during an armed raid on her village in 2017 and then, in 2021, was forced to leave her home after flooding submerged her village and killed all her livestock. Over the course of 4 days, she travelled with her 7 children in a makeshift canoe made out of plastic sheeting, finally arriving in one of the few dry villages left in Rubkona County.
10 NOVEMBER 2022, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adeyinka Badejo, Deputy Country Director South Sudan, WFP:
“More than 1 million people in South Sudan have been affected by extreme flooding. The surface area of land permanently submerged underwater has tripled and an already dire food security situation exacerbated, leaving 2.9 million people at risk of starvation.”
17 AUGUST 2022, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
7. Various shots, mothers with children at Juba Nutrition Centre in a camp for Internally Displaced People, where children are tested for malnutrition and treated with special fortified food. 20 year old Nyawuok Muon is among thousands of people displaced by flooding who now lives in the camp. Her 7-month-old daughter, who suffered from Moderate Acute Malnutrition, is now on her way to recovery after several months of treatment. Almost 65 percent of the population (7.76 million people) are facing hunger, including 43,000 people facing famine-like conditions and struggling to access even the most basic food items.
10 NOVEMBER 2022, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
8. SOUNBITE (English) Adeyinka Badejo, Deputy Country Director South Sudan, WFP:
“Vulnerable communities here have done very little to contribute to climate change, living largely off of the land and without polluting technology. Now It’s vital that the international community comes together to support the South Sudanese to build resilience against increasingly severe climate shocks and a future free from the threat of famine.”
27 OCTOBER 2022, TWIC COUNTY, WARRAP STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
9. Various shots, people harvesting rice. As part of a WFP climate adaptation project, farmers are trained in the cultivation of rice and other food crops that thrive in flood plains, to help improve food security even as flooding increases.
22 JUNE 2022, TWIC COUNTY, WARRAP STATE
10. Various shots, Alek Ngoar, who works on the WFP climate adaptation project eating rice with her family. Families working on the project are provided with cash assistance (around $40-50/month) for three years as they complete the project cycle which includes training and asset creation to support livelihood opportunities that are resilient to climate shocks.
The World Food Programme (WFP) informed that more than one million people have been impacted by an unprecedented, multi-year flood event that is sweeping South Sudan, exacerbating high levels of hunger caused by ongoing conflict and the global food crisis
South Sudan is one of the most rapidly warming areas in the world with temperatures increasing at two-and-a-half times the global average.
The country is experiencing a fourth consecutive year of flooding and the country’s wetlands, known as the Sudd, have expanded threefold since 2019, now covering 10-15 percent of the country’s land area.
There has been a year-on-year increase in families consuming wild foods, such as water lilies since this flood began in 2019 - a coping mechanism used during times of extreme food scarcity in South Sudan.
While half of the country finds itself underwater, other areas are experiencing drought for the first time on record and the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis shows drought-affected areas in the southeast of the country have recorded the largest deterioration in food security this year.
Communities are seeing their resources become depleted amid the climate extremes but It isn’t too late to support them as they adapt to the new reality. WFP is working with flood-affected communities to build their resilience to increasingly severe climate shocks, expanding livelihood projects to support 800,000 people.
WFP trains farmers to diversify their crops by supporting them to grow drought-resistant and water-tolerant crops such as rice, cassava and Sukuma – helping to improve food security throughout the year.
WFP’s livelihoods programmes promote peace by encouraging communities to build collective farming assets such as flood-protective dykes and shallow ponds – helping to prevent conflict and promote social cohesion between pastoralists and landowners over water and land.
In Unity State, a WFP resilience pilot project is helping women turn the invasive water hyacinth weed - a large emitter of methane when it decomposes naturally - into cooking fuel.
Protracted funding shortfalls have forced WFP to prioritize those who are on the brink of starvation. WFP needs flexible, predictable and sustainable funding to support both the immediate and long-term needs of all vulnerable people in South Sudan, especially displaced populations and host communities.
In April, funding shortfalls forced WFP to suspend food assistance to 1.7 million of the 6.2 million people it planned to reach. Funding constraints have also led to ration reductions with people currently only receiving half rations.
Recent donor contributions have enabled WFP to resume food assistance to people in some of the areas that were impacted by the suspensions: in the 8 counties with people in IPC5/famine-like conditions families are receiving 70 percent rations. But, WFP urgently requires $585 million US dollars to deliver life-saving assistance for more than 6 million people for the next six months.
Programmes that can build long-term solutions are also the most underfunded with WFP forced to suspend or reduce assistance to more than half of those we planned to reach with livelihoods and school meals due to funding shortfalls.
