Watering the neat lines of green salad leaves outside her thatched home, Susan Konga, a South Sudanese woman living in a refugee camp in northern Uganda, is preparing her kitchen garden for the next harvest.
This year the success of her tireless cultivation will be put to the test - complete self-sufficiency.
After six years in Uganda, Konga, a single mother, must now rely entirely on the maize, cassava and salad leaves grown in her small vegetable patch. The change in policy will make it difficult for her to adjust, she said. WFP says vulnerable refugees such as new arrivals, the sick and elderly, will continue to receive emergency food aid, but the organisation's $180 million funding shortfall means others will have to be weaned off it.
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