
Natural Resource Management and sustainable Livelihoods Community Support Initiative (CSI) play its role in ensuring communities to embark on sustainable and resilience livelihoods through food production. CSI works among the grassroots communities to help them achieve family label food security at the village level. Local communities in South Sudan use old traditional methods of farming which do not yield enough foods. Use of hand hoes, cultivate only a small portion of land which in most cases produce food that cannot sustain the family to the next harvest season. CSI sensitize and train communities to use modern methods of farming like use of ox-ploughs, tractors, fertilizing of gardens with homemade manures, irrigated vegetable gardens, fisheries and joint community gardens for commercial food production. CSI also ensures communities use modern methods of agricultural production to boost their subsistence farming. It is observable that there is a small scale production of green vegetables by those who make use of the Nile banks for irrigated gardens. The CSI’s supported local farmers supply the markets with greens like ’kudura’, okra, tomatoes and ’gwede-gwede’ (Amaranthus). CSI will empower more community members to embark on large scale farming for both cereals and vegetables to contribute in supplying the markets with low cost food items. In support to the above commitments, CSI has decided to implement the following activities under agricultural component as a prerequisite of achieving a sustainable food security and livelihoods



