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Book (stand-alone)Strengthening coherence between social protection and agricultural interventions - The case of Mali 2021
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No results found.This country report integrates methods, analysis and findings of two studies that explore the impact of a package of short-term humanitarian and recovery interventions in response to food crisis affecting poor and vulnerable livelihoods in Mali. The design of the studies, data collection and research were funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development through the Universidad de los Andes for the project: “Improving the articulation between social protection interventions and rural productive development in developing countries: lessons from Latin America and Africa" and the FAO Regular Programme funds. -
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. -
ProjectCapacity Development to Strengthen Coordination between Agriculture and Social Protection - TCP/ZAM/3602 2020
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No results found.Over the past decade, Zambia has achieved notable levels of macroeconomic stability and growth, and it has also become classified as a lower middle-income country. The economic growth, however, has primarily been driven by capital-intensive sectors in urban areas, such as mining, construction and transport, meaning that is has largely been non-inclusive. Consequentially, Zambia has only seen marginal decreases in rates of poverty and malnutrition, with levels of inequality on the rise. Poverty is unevenly distributed throughout the country, being estimated at 74 percent in rural areas, which is more than double the urban poverty rate of 35 percent. Moreover, extreme poverty is estimated at 58 percent in rural areas and only 13 percent in urban areas. Despite the absence of major shocks since the global economic crisis (2009–2010) and consecutively good harvests from then until 2014, rural households frequently experienced both absolute and seasonal food shortages, money shortages, the loss of assets, increased food prices and poor health.
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