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  • Publication | 2022

2021 FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) to the Republic of South Sudan

Global Food and Nutrition Security

The 2021 net cereal production (after standardized deduction of post-harvest losses and seed use) in the traditional smallholder sector is estimated at about 839 500 tonnes, 4 percent below the 2020 output and well below the preconflict levels. The year-on-year decrease in cereal production is mainly driven by reduced yields due to prolonged dry spells and widespread floods, which had offset a slight increase in harvested area. Significant flood-induced crop production shortfalls occurred in Warrap and Jonglei states, where cereal production in 2020 was already at very low levels.

The harvested area in 2021 is estimated at about 995 000 hectares, slightly up from 2020 and 8 percent above the 2016–2020 average, but still below pre-conflict levels. Security improvements in some areas prompted returns of displaced households and encouraged farmers to expand plantings in fields far from homesteads.