By Skye Wheeler
Juba - The World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations will
cut food aid for southern Sudan by 19 percent after an assessment
indicated that the need has declined, a WFP official said on
Monday.
"Last year we distributed some 133 000 tons and this year we
plan on only 108 000 tons," said Justin Bagirishya, WFP head
in South Sudan.
A 2005 peace agreement ended 21 years of civil war between north
and south Sudan, and the ensuing peace has led to greater food
security, Bagirishya said.
"But the major change is not so much in terms of tonnage but a change in activity emphasis," said Bagirishya. Generalised food distribution would drop by almost 40 percent, he added.
Some of the food will be used instead to feed up to 450 000 children in school feeding programmes. Thousands of returnees to the south and demobilised soldiers will each receive a three-month food supply.
The WFP had also prepared a contingency stock in case of discrepancies in their projections, given South Sudan's volatile circumstance, Bagirishya said.
While in the past food was given for free, Bagirishya said the WFP was planning new approaches such as a "food for recovery" plan in which community members would be given food in return for fencing farmland, maintaining a clean village or agreeing to farm a certain area of land. Published on the Web by IOL on 2007-04-02 23:25:53
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