http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/showRecord.php?RecordId=33188 Record Details Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/showRecord.php?RecordId=33188 http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/showRecord.php?RecordId=33188 This report presents the findings of a study carried out in November and December 2009 on the role of communitybased organisations and groups, as well as local institutions more generally, in addressing food security and threats to livelihoods. The overall aim was to examine ways in which to support food security and livelihoods in protracted crises such as Darfur, where conflict has been ongoing now for seven years. Food insecurity and threats to livelihoods persist for many population groups in North Darfur. The conflict is now characterised by banditry, crime and localised clashes between government and rebel movements, within different SLA factions and between different Arab groups. There are also periodic largescale attacks. Continued violence causes fresh displacement and restricts movement and therefore trade, access to markets and land. Cereal prices are at their highest level for five years. This is in part due to high transport costs, associated with the fragmentation of armed groups and consequent increases in checkpoints along roads, and a lack of supply, in part due to low or unevenly distributed rains. Livelihood strategies for most IDPs in camps remain limited and work is badly paid. Humanitarian Policy Group // Overseas Development Institute // Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency // Christian Aid