What is our Plan?

1. To assist small farmers to increase their own acreage, and thus production of food, and help them to see farming as a business, not just a mere survival tactic. This will be done through micro-loans in the form of services rendered, by ploughing and working their enlarged acreages – thus improving their whole economic situation.
   
   
2. To build fifty 2,000 acre farms to supplement the feeding of Southern Sudanese in much less fertile areas of Southern Sudan, and to create an agricultural basis for food export to other African nations suffering chronic hunger/starvation.can people starve in a fertile land with two good rain

The need for emergency feeding in Africa has been an on-going crisis for many decades, yet Africa has the most fertile land available in any continent in the world. Why should a land which is so fertile be facing hunger and starvation? With lush vegetation and endless wide sweeping savannahs, why does Sudan have 3,000,000 hungry and displaced people within the country, and another 1,000,000 more people returning to a land with a food crisis? Sudan could be the bread-basket of Africa! Why not?

Emergency feeding is essential at this stage of their new-found, though fragile, peace. But, a dependency syndrome has blanketed Southern Sudan with a dignity smothering intensity.

Now people are beginning to return to their home places, both from among the three million internally displaced people, and another million who have been neutralized in refugee camps in countries surrounding Sudan. Many, who sought immunity from the bombing by camping outside Khartoum itself (where bombing was not likely) are also beginning to return south. And they are all hungry.

That is where “HARVEST SUDAN.COM” comes into the picture. By the establishment of farms with hundreds of acres of various crops by the Savannah Farmers Cooperative (SFC) with which Harvest Sudan works, crops can be increased up to five times their present yield on the same acreage. Already model farms are in place, and the yields are proving that, given the tools, the Sudanese themselves can and will secure their own future with food, restore their own dignity, and have a much improved life style.

 A marketing strategy is slowly being put in place to help these local farmers sell their goods to the wider marketplace. SFC will guarantee to buy their excess produce at fare market value and market it to save them the cost and time it would otherwise take to get a reasonable pay-back on their investment in the land.

We want to help local farmers to see beyond simply subsistence living, and to see farming as a business which can substantially support them. Agriculture has to be the basis on which health and future wealth will be built. Other spin-off industries will inevitably grow out of a flourishing agricultural economy.