ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the experience of CARE in implementing the Kordofan Agroforestry Extension Project in the Kordofan Region of Sudan. The project was undertaken at the same time that CARE was operating the emergency food distribution system for most of Kordofan The Kordofan Agroforestry Extension Project was funded by CARE. Canada as a joint effort by CARE and the Forestry Department of the Sudan Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In addition to the Kordofan Agroforestry Extension Project and food distribution programs, CASE operated other projects in Kordofan including: supplementary feeding, water supply management, renewable resources conservation, household garden re-establishment, seed distribution, women's development, and child health. At the time of the 1983-85 drought, there were approximately seventeen million feddans under cultivation in Sudan. Of these, only four million feddans were irrigated. Northern Kordofan was ecologically fragile and under increasing pressure from population growth, drought, changing agricultural practices, and demands for wood for charcoal.
