Reducing risk, strengthening resilience: Social protection and nutrition
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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IN THE MID-1990S, governments and researchers in three countries from very different parts of the world—Bangladesh, Brazil, and Mexico— began moving toward a new type of poverty alleviation program. Struggling to meet the needs of their poor populations through various poverty-reduction initiatives, they wondered whether attaching conditions to those programs would make a difference. What if in exchange for receiving a food basket or a cash voucher, program beneficiaries were asked to, for example, bring their infants to the local health clinic for growth monitoring, or enroll their older children in secondary school? Such a change could not only meet the immediate needs of citizens, but also help improve their longer- term welfare and development, all of which affect nutrition.
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maternal and child health, education, infants, health, nutrition policies, agricultural policies, agricultural research, social protection, water, stunting, agriculture, micronutrient deficiencies, malnutrition, nutrition, trace elements, infant feeding, developing countries, children, hygiene, social safety nets, resilience, obesity, wasting disease