South Sudan Natural Resources Review
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Washington, DC: World Bank
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South Sudan’s extensive renewable
natural resources are critically important to its
predominantly rural population, which relies on largely
subsistence livelihoods and has limited access to the market
economy. Until recently, almost all South Sudanese lived
directly off the land, while colonial and northern
administrators and traders inhabited the limited urban
centers. Recent decades of conflict have seen widespread
displacement and rapid urban growth, but most of the
population is still rural and relies mainly on subsistence
lifestyles. A low human presence has left the country with
vast areas of largely natural habitat that remain critical
to sustaining livelihoods. Approximately 75 percent of the
population relies directly on local ecosystems for
essentials like food, clean water, and energy (Fedele et al.
2021). Large Nilotic tribes like the Dinka, Nuer, and
Shilluk all depend on their livestock resources and access
to vast areas for grazing, as well as wild foods and
medicinal plants (Grosskinsky and Gullick 2000). Populations
along the Nile and its central wetlands depend to a large
extent on fish, and some communities in areas of richer
soils have substantial histories of sedentary agriculture.
Communities displaced or cut off from regular livelihoods
during conflict often turned to bushmeat for survival.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY, NATURAL RESOURCES, RURAL AREAS, ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT, FISHERIES, FORESTS, WILDLIFE, TOURISM