Final Presentation: Research Outcomes (Pt. 1)

Problems: Food Security: Millions of displaced Sudanese people from the war between the North and the South leads to overpopulated refugee camps where a bunch of people starve. The very high majority practices subsistence farming to feed themselves and their family. The dry, drought-prone climate, lack of equipment and technology, lack of knowledge on how to successfully farm, and unpredictability of rainfall make harvest extremely difficult. Livestock often have diseases that either transport to the people or kill the livestock before they can be used to their full potential. Government: The staff is poorly paid and poorly trained. Bribes are often paid to authorities without consequence. There is no information about funds, or anything given to the public by the government. Over 2.3 billion in public funds have been embezzled.

Past Solutions: The United States and the United Nations have both attempted to help (not directly fix the government in Sudan), or entirely food security either, rather to provide relief. The U.S. has given billions of dollars to the federal government of Sudan in hope that it uses that money to provide for its people and make sure they aren’t starving and dying. This only results in the selfish and corrupt Sudanese politicians embezzling the funds. The whereabouts of billions of dollars given to the Sudanese government is still unknown.

Quick Reflection: There are so many issues that are outlined in my paper dealing with food security AND government in Sudan. I picked the majority of them, if not all of them. For government I left a few out because there were so many. I picked the ones that I saw as the most impactful. I also shortened them and summed them up because I am limited to the amount of time I'm aloud to speak on them, and this isn't even the important part of my presentation. The past solutions were difficult, because there hardly were any. Nothing had been solved, therefore no solutions. A few small scale efforts to strictly receive the lives of the Sudanese had occurred, but absolutely nothing like my solutions where they are an attempt to wholly solve the issue, rather than temporarily relieve the suffering in Sudan.