Social protection for agriculture and resilience: Highlights, lessons learned, and priorities for One CGIAR

dc.creatorCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets
dc.date2021-04-27
dc.date2024-05-22T12:18:26Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:18:26Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:06:08Z
dc.descriptionHow do social protection programs influence agricultural growth and nutrition, and what are the implications of this for program design? PIM research on the impact of social protection programs and complementary interventions for agricultural growth and nutrition made significant contributions to research and policy, including through impact evaluations of national food and cash transfer programs (e.g., the Takaful and Karama Program in Egypt, the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia, and the Programme de Filets Sociaux “Jigisemejiri” in Mali), pilot studies (in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Tanzania, and Yemen), and papers and review studies covering many low- and middle-income countries. Social protection programs that provide cash or in-kind transfers alone often show limited short-term effects on agriculture or nutrition outcomes, although there is evidence of impacts of cash transfers alone on child nutrition in cases of extreme deprivation or when transfers are very large. The flagship’s research shows that social protection programs that bundle cash or in-kind transfers with high-quality complementary programming can generate large, significant improvements in agriculture and nutrition outcomes. Such complementary programming includes agricultural extension and nutrition behavior change communication (BCC).
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143960
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/94579
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). 2021. Social protection for agriculture and resilience: Highlights, lessons learned, and priorities for One CGIAR. PIM Flagship Insights 4. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134376.
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectchild nutrition
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleSocial protection for agriculture and resilience: Highlights, lessons learned, and priorities for One CGIAR
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