Sustain Sudan

About this project

Sudan is a country at war, with immense effects both on the production of food for domestic consumption and of agricultural commodities for exports. To date, about half of the population are suffering from acute and ongoing under- and mal-nutrition, to levels that actually cause starvation. Reports of UN entities, domes c and international humanitarian organizations continue to raise alarms over the humanitarian impacts of the war. While food imports and food aid are vitally important, they can never meet the full need of the Sudanese population. Sudan’s agricultural sector has traditionally foreseen in production of most of its grains consumption, as well as in a variety of other products both for domes c processing and consumption, as well as for exports. Sudan’s secret was not so much in high yields, but in extensive areale of fertile soils and water access. In other words, farmers in Sudan can produce the food the country needs, if they have access to the usual inputs: seeds, fertilizer, crop protection, fodder, and in some cases also irrigation and mechanization. And supporting all this: an agricultural inputs sector and a financial sector with products and product conditions geared to serve the agricultural sector. Our assumption is that this basically also is the way forward during – and hopefully soon emerging from – the war – through a market-based approach that reactivates actors that traditionally always have helped Sudan’s primary agricultural production sector t…

Published by

International Fertilizer Development Center · International NGO

Countries

Sudan

Sectors

Agricultural development

Focus

Trade development · Main focusNutrition · Main focus

Funded by

Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Khartoum p.t Nairobi

Implemented by

Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz Y Trigo Sustain Africa (CIMMYT), Esnad Project Management Services LLC, Clingendael Research Institute, International Fertilizer Development Center

Accountable

International Fertilizer Development Center

Published by International Fertilizer Development Center to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 16 Jul 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: US-EIN-63-0676451-XM-DAC-7-PPR-250000492.

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