Sudan: As Sudan’s War Rages, Its Farmers Help Fill the Hunger Gap

A WFP-African Development Bank wheat project is boosting harvests amid catastrophic food insecurity

Standing in a field of golden wheat, Imad is a long way from his life as a mechanic in Sudan’s once-bustling capital of Khartoum. Today, the city lies in ruins after more than a year of civil war, and he has a new job working the land and harvesting its bounty in the northern village of Kubday.

“They gave us all we need and we farmed, thanks to God,” says Imad, 59 (whose last name is being withheld…