Sudan: UN-backed plan aims to mobilize private investment to revive agriculture

A UN-backed plan aims to mobilize private sector investments to enable Sudanese farmers to return to cultivating their lands, according to UN News. The conflict has devastated the country's economy and agricultural production. Before the war, agriculture was a key sector of the Sudanese economy. The UN plan did not provide additional details in the announcement relayed. The reconstruction of the productive sector will depend as much on security stability on the ground, a prerequisite for any credible investment, as on capital flows themselves, in a country where insecurity still limits access to fertile areas. Sankofa Insight — An agricultural sector rebuilt on foreign capital, without Sudanese control over supply chains and land, does not fully restore complete food sovereignty: a country that does not control its productive resources remains vulnerable to external decisions, even when production resumes.