Understanding Markets and Trade

The ‘Understanding Markets and Trade’ project is monitoring and tracking trade in Darfur, Sudan, a context of violent conflict and deep humanitarian crisis. The project is researching how trade in general, and trade in agricultural and livestock commodities in particular, has adapted, positively and negatively, to the nationwide war in Sudan. It explores how trade is interlinked with the conflict, and the implications for social cohesion. The project aims to:

• deepen understanding of how the war is impacting food security and livelihoods in Darfur and how those affected can best be supported through market-oriented interventions by humanitarian and development actors;
• inform conflict-sensitive programming by humanitarian actors.

The project approach is based upon listening to local voices and capturing local knowledge.