Examining the Combine Impact of Climate Change and Conflict on Food Security in Jonglei State of South Sudan

Achieving food security and zero hunger without destructing the environment for future generation is one of the goals to be achieved by 2030 according to UN sustainable development goals, however there are threatening challenges for attaining the goal due to combined effects of climate change and conflict on food security. The negative effect of climate change like floods, drought, high temperature and precipitations, and destruction of infrastructures leads to poor crop yields, lack of accessibility to food mobility. These coupled with effects of conflict which results into killings, displacement of the population, crop destructions, theft, and abandonment of homes to take refugee. These combined effects of climate change and conflict on food security needs to be addressed as many research papers failed to mention the two together. This research aims at examining the combined effect of climate change and conflict on food security with specific objectives of; i) to determine the effect of climate change and conflict on food security components of accessibility, availability, food stability and utilization in Jonglei state of South Sudan, ii) to examine the interrelated nature of climate change, conflict, and food security in Jonglei State of South Sudan iii) to explore the climate change adaptation methods to create food security in Jonglei State of South Sudan. The research design will be qualitative way where questionnaire will be designed to carry out focused group discussions, interviews, and observations to answer the research questions of to present the result and discussions. The scope of study will cover Jonglei state under the Upper Nile region of South Sudan as is one of the most state hit badly by negative effects of climate change and conflict with high level of food insecurity and malnutrition amongst the ten (10) other states of in the four regions of South Sudan. Qualitative research design is the method used for this research, where questionnaires are designed to collect data through focused group discussions, selected population of seventy (70) online and offline questionnaires that will be given to local leaders, government officials from ministry of agriculture and environment and some family heads as recordings are taken from respondents of Jonglei state of South Sudan. The research findings shall be collaborated by desk study of different join nutritional situation analysis from World Food Programme, FAO, and UNICEF. The research findings are discussed in detail with presentation of the respondents’ views on the subject matter to answer the research questions and objectives.