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ProjectStrengthening Coherence Between Social Protection and Agriculture to Combat Food Insecurity and Rural Poverty - MTF/GLO/937/ULA 2021
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No results found.Poverty, hunger and food insecurity are most heavily concentrated among rural dwellers. To address these problems, in recent years, countries have set up a number of social assistance programmes to help extreme poor households manage risk more effectively and protect their consumption and assets without having to resort to negative coping strategies in the face of a crisis. Cash transfers and other programmes have been implemented at scale; and it has been demonstrated that these programmes make a positive difference in the lives of the rural poor. At the same time, it has become increasingly evident that despite their positive contributions to shielding the poor from shocks and helping them avert destitution, social protection programmes by themselves are insufficient to fully unleash productive potential and help small farm and other poor rural households embark on self-sustaining livelihood pathways out of poverty. In the light of these issues, the project aimed to explore and document the benefits of articulating social protection and rural development interventions, in order to provide evidence to policy-makers and donors on better programme design, sequencing, and institutional design for supporting rural poor alleviation. -
Book (stand-alone)Strengthening coherence between social protection and productive interventions
The case of Zambia
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No results found.The aim of this study is to explore the distributional impacts on poverty and income of two programmes in Zambia, the Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programme and the Conservation Agriculture Scale-Up (CASU) project, complementing the impact evaluation findings by Prifti & Grinspun (2019). These programmes target different parts of the population but are partly overlapping; they aim to influence poverty and food security through different channels. In the World Food Programme (WFP)’s HGSF modality, school feeding or provision of free meals for schoolchildren is complemented with procurement of food used for the meals from local smallholders. The purchase scheme aims to provide market access for smallholders, hence improving income stability and incentives to invest, ultimately increasing their productivity and reducing poverty. The objectives of school meals alone are improvement in schoolchildren’s nutrition as well as improvement in school attendance and hence human capital accumulation. Conservation agriculture (CA) consists of production methods that reduce farmers’ vulnerability to climate risks and improve productivity. The CASU programme promoted the use of such methods among smallholders through training and demonstration and provision of inputs, aiming for adoption of more sustainable farming which increases farm productivity in the long run. -
Book (stand-alone)Strengthening coherence between agriculture and social protection: Zambia country case study report 2015
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No results found.This study forms part of seven country case studies carried out as part of the FAO’s From Protection to Production (PtoP) programme. Zambia was selected as one of the countries given the substantial role played by agriculture there with regard to employment and the economy, and the growing portfolio of social protection measures which have been implemented against a backdrop of persistently high levels of poverty. Of particular interest was the implicit sequencing of programmes from cash transfe rs, to the Food Security Pack and finally, one of the main agricultural programmes over the past decade – the Farmer Input Support Programme. The analysis in Zambia followed a common approach and framework set out as part of the country case studies. This involved looking at the context (including policies and programmes), coordination and outcomes. This was carried out through an initial desk-based review, which involved reviewing key documents covering development strategy, agricultural and so cial protection policy and research papers. This was followed by a two-week in-country data collection exercise involving a number of key informant interviews (KIIs) with ministry staff, cooperating partners and civil society and focus group discussions with local communities (FGDs). The study involved looking across both the agricultural and social protection spheres at the national and subnational levels.
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