Assessing the impacts of Ukraine`s crisis on food security in South Sudan Before the effects of the war in Ukraine have fully reached South Sudan, more than 8.9 million people (including 4.6 million children and 1.3 million women) are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection in South Sudan. The main drivers at the national, state and county levels include intercommunal conflict, conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, social and political instability, climate-related shocks (flooding and drought or dry spells); disproportionately affecting non-dominant social groups such as displaced persons, elderly, disabled, women, and children. The COVID-19 pandemic further aggravated the existing vulnerabilities and weakened the already fragile health system of South Sudan, an added threat to people?s livelihood. Against this background, the crisis in Ukraine has started to have a ripple effect in disrupting supply chains and fueling increase in prices of food commodities and fuel, aggravating the high-level food insecurity as the country largely depends on food imports. However, the impacts are still uncertain and at best speculative, and thus far the several possible knock-on effects, at least in the short term, require more nuanced understanding. This warrants an exhaustive evidence-based and gender-inclusive impact analysis to better grasp the magnitude of the effect of Ukraine war in South Sudan to better mitigate the impacts on the live