More than 4.3 million people in South Sudan required food assistance in 2010 Our target is for 35,000 smallholder farmers in South Sudan to gain food security and increase productivity, income and employment by 2015 35,000 the challenge of nation building would have been unthinkable without the development of this sector. Within the Agriculture sector, SNV’s focus has been on the livestock, horticulture, staple crops and nontimber forest products value chains. With herding a traditional occupation for many South Sudanese, the livestock sub-sector is also particularly important in the country – with a range of problems needing to be addressed, from cattle raiding to post-conflict restocking of herds and rehabilitation of the country’s vocational training institutes. SNV has been active in all these areas, working with young men on “raiding to trading” enterprise development programmes, supporting livestock restocking and market development in the conflictaffected Abyei area, and contributing to the rehabilitation of three of South Sudan’s oldest vocational training institutes – the Yei Crop Training Center (CTC), the Mariel Lau Livestock Training Centre, and the Ahmadi Polytechnic Institute. To enable the population to realise real gains from peace and to establish social contracts between the government and communities, SNV has also supported medium-term strategic planning through multi-stakeholder platforms. In 2011, SNV supported the consultative process of developing and publishing the first five-year Livestock Sector Strategic Plan of Jonglei State Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries. For Eastern Equatoria State, SNV carried out the Livestock Investment Options study which enabled the Ministry to guide both small-scale and major investors on the > JULY 2012 CONNECT #1 19 Pagina 18
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