Targeting food security interventions when “everyone is poorâ€: The case of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

Sarah Coll-Black, Daniel Gilligan (d.gilligan@cgiar.org), John Hoddinott, Neha Kumar, Alemayehu Taffesse and William Wiseman

No 24, ESSP working papers 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 (infrastructure development, improved technologies for agriculture, etc.), and interventions that protect the poorest from hunger, prevent asset depletion and provide a platform on which the growth interventions can take place. Given limited resources for the latter, there needs to be an allocation mechanism. But in a country like Ethiopia, where poverty is widespread and income distribution relatively equal, how does targeting work? (Woldehanna et al. 2008); literally, when “everyone is poor".

Keywords: food security; social safety nets; food aid; Ethiopia; Eastern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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