Sesame is an important cash crop for local and regional economies in Eastern Africa, accounting for $286 million of Ethiopia’s export earnings and $488 million of Sudan’s export earnings.

Yet conflict and contestation since the onset of war in northern Ethiopia and conquest of disputed farmlands in Al Fashaga by the Sudanese army in 2020 has disrupted agricultural value chains across the region - with a range of interlinked impacts for livelihood security, conflict dynamics, and coping mechanisms.

This animated explainer video on sesame supply chains and cross-border conflict was produced with support from the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) project, funded by UK Aid from the UK government.

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