Targeting food security interventions in Ethiopia: The productive safety net programme

Sarah Coll-Black, Daniel Gilligan (), John Hoddinott, Neha Kumar, Alemayehu Taffesse and William Wiseman

Chapter 10 in Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy challenges, 2012 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: In Ethiopia, as in many other African countries, there is a pressing need to improve household food security. An emerging consensus suggests that this is most easily accomplished through two development strategies with two complementary dimensions: investments that facilitate income generation and asset accumulation, discussed elsewhere in this book, and interventions that protect the poorest from hunger, prevent asset depletion, and provide a platform for the growth interventions. Because resources for such interventions are limited, there needs to be a mechanism for allocating these.

Keywords: food security; agricultural development; agricultural policies; resilience; social protection; social safety nets; Ethiopia; Eastern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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