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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetNao and his family farm
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2015The document is a comic developed within the frame of the World Food day Poster Contest 2015. The comic aims at explaining to young students the concept of social protection and help them draw a poster for the contest. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetThe State of Food and Agriculture 2015 in brief 2015The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on reducing poverty have been met by many countries, yet many others lag behind and the post-2015 challenge will be the full eradication of poverty and hunger. Many developing countries increasingly recognize that social protection measures are needed to relieve the immediate deprivation of people living in poverty and to prevent others from falling into poverty when a crisis strikes. Social protection can also help recipients become more productive by ena bling them to manage risks, build assets and undertake more rewarding activities. These benefits spread beyond the immediate recipients to their communities and the broader economy as recipients purchase food, agricultural inputs and other rural goods and services. But social protection can only offer a sustainable pathway out of poverty if there is inclusive growth in the economy. In most low- and middle-income countries, agriculture remains the largest employer of the poor and is a major sourc e of livelihoods through wage labour and own production for household consumption and the market. Poverty and its corollaries – malnutrition, illness and lack of education – limit agricultural productivity. Hence, providing social protection and pursuing agricultural development in an integrated way offers synergies that can increase the effectiveness of both.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetCash transfers: their economic and productive impacts 2016
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This brief summarises the findings of rigorous impact evaluations of seven government-run cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. The focus of the evaluations was on economic and productive impacts of the programmes on beneficiaries as well as the wider communities in which they lived.
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