Sustainable Agriculture & Livelihood

COPE believes that Agriculture can make significant development in people’s lives. We aim at ending hunger, achieve food security, improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture and livelihood. Agricultural produce can eradicate poverty and enhance quality lives among citizens. COPE in line with the United Nations (sustainable development goals 2015, agenda 2; Transitional Constitution of South Sudan 2011, p.73 article 177: i) wish to achieve agriculture should the following objectives.

To end hunger and ensure access of quality food for all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations and including infants.

To end all forms of malnutrition, among children under 5 years & below age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.

To double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.

To ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

To maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed

To increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries.

To correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in the country’s agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round.

To adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility.