The war in Sudan has devastated the economy and agricultural production, but a UN-backed plan aims to mobilise private sector investment to help farmers return to their fields.
Sudan has 80 million hectares of arable land and enough Nile water to irrigate far more of it than it does. A century after the Gezira Scheme proved the concept, the infrastructure to unlock Sudan's agricultural potential still hasn't been built.
Sudan has 175 million cultivable acres, the Nile, and proven agricultural heritage. It imports food. This is not geography — it is policy failure: colonial restructuring, premature liberalisation, no cooperative processing, raw commodity export instead of finished goods.