Special report: 2025 FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) to the Republic of South Sudan
| dc.coverage | South Sudan | |
| dc.creator | FAO; WFP; | |
| dc.date | 2026-04-07T15:40:39Z | |
| dc.date | 2026-04-07T15:40:39Z | |
| dc.date | 2026 | |
| dc.date | 2026-04-07T15:36:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T23:11:25Z | |
| dc.description | The annual FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) was conducted from 2 to 16 December 2026 to estimate the cereal production during 2025 and assess the overall food security situation in the country. The 2025 net cereal production is estimated at about 1 213 100 tonnes, 8 percent higher than the 2024 output and 27 percent above the average of the previous five years. The year-on-year increase in production at national level was mainly driven by a 7 percent expansion of harvested area, reflecting a growing number of farming households, including returnees from the Sudan and urban households cultivating nearby rural land as a secondary source of income in response to high food prices. Yields were similar to the previous year and almost 9 percent above the average of the previous five years, due to overall favourable weather conditions and limited flood-related damage to standing crops. Despite the good performance of the 2025 cropping season, the cereal deficit is still significant, representing about 20 percent of the domestic cereal requirements, and the food security situation remains dire, with about 7.55 million people (53 percent of the total population) estimated to face IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or worse levels of acute food insecurity during the lean season between April and July 2026. The main drivers of food insecurity are protracted macroeconomic challenges resulting in high inflation and currency depreciation, extreme weather events (floods and dry spells), localized insecurity due to subnational violence, internal population displacement and conflict‑related shocks in neighbouring countries continuing to drive new arrivals of returnees and refugees, disrupting supply chains and markets, and resulting in reduced remittances. | |
| dc.format | 80 p. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | 2707-2487 | |
| dc.identifier | 978-92-5-140566-6 | |
| dc.identifier | 2707-2479 | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd8719en | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/274364 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | FAO ; WFP ; | |
| dc.relation | CFSAMs Special Reports | |
| dc.relation | No. 01/2026 | |
| dc.rights | FAO | |
| dc.rights | CC BY 4.0 | |
| dc.title | Special report: 2025 FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) to the Republic of South Sudan | |
| dc.title | 19 March 2026 | |
| dc.type | Book (series) |