A Baseline Study from Budi County, South Sudan.
DCG Report 39
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Paul Makenzi
Environmental degradation arising from the depletion of forest biodiversity and the resulting problems, such as soil erosion, water shortage, climate change and poverty, have become issues of global concern. The worst hit by these problems are women and men living in fragile environments of Sub-Saharan Africa. In the Didinga and Buya hills in Budi county, Equatoria region in South Sudan, which is the focus of this study, environmental degradation problems have in the recent past become evident.
The main objective of this baseline study was to assess the NRM problems, the scope of environmental degradation in the Didinga and Buya Hills and its underlying causes. The aim of this was to document accurate baseline data that could pave the way for developing management strategies that are locally appropriate and acceptable to foster sustainable natural resource management.
Thus, this report, which provides original insights on NRM issues in Budi county, is meant to serve as a reference document that development change agents, researchers, political and policy makers can rely on with regard to NRM challenges and those faced by the New Sudan in its period of reconstruction.
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