Environmental Strategies for Increasing Human Resilience in Sudan: Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation in North and East Africa (Balgis M. Osman and Nagmeldin Goubti, Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources, Sudan, and Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Stockholm Environment Institute, USA)

This project aims to identify cost-effective environmental management measures that can contribute most to the resilience and adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities and agricultural systems in Sudan and other drought-prone countries. A series of four case studies in disaster-struck regions of Sudan will be utilized to explore the relative resilience of communities and the productive systems on which they depend (specifically agriculture, including food crop production, silviculture and animal husbandry) to climate-related disasters and long-term climate change. In addition, a series of synthesis reports and training modules, and the development of a national and regional network that includes relevant Sudanese and North African organizations, will serve to strengthen the capacity of key actors (including decision-makers, researchers, community-based groups and intergovernmental agencies) in Sudan and surrounding countries to respond to climate change vulnerability with affordable adaptation options. Through this research, the project may succeed in bringing to light those environmental management measures that can provide a ‘triple dividend’ - decreased climate-related disaster vulnerability, reduced demand for international humanitarian assistance in disaster response and recovery, and achievement of national and global sustainable development objectives.

Countries and sectors: Sudan in particular, North Africa in general. Agriculture, including crop production, livestock, and silviculture.