This presentation will tell you different aspects and contents related to this subject. this is theme of 2015 of World Food Day on October 16,2015. thank you

1. Presented by:
Kumar Ankit
Development Management Institute, Patna

3. Introduction: Social Protection
 Definition by United Nations Research Institute For Social Development: it is concerned with
preventing, managing, and overcoming situations that adversely affect people’s well being
 Social protection blends of policies, programs and interventions designed to reduce poverty and
vulnerability
 It promote efficient labor markets, diminishing people's exposure to risks, and enhancing their
capacity to manage economic and social risks, such as unemployment, exclusion, sickness, disability
and old age

4. Key factors
 According to ILO in 2014 , About 73 percent of the world population have no access to social protection
measures, most of which in rural areas.
 Less than 2% of the global GDP would be necessary to provide a basic set of social security benefits to
all of the world’s poor (ILO, 2006).
 Women have less access to social protection than men because they generally work in the informal
sector.

5. Need
 Tackle vulnerability
 Improving food and nutrition security
 Reducing rural poverty
 Enable households to better manage risks
 To benefits women and promote their economic and social
empowerment.

6. Social Protection Programme: Classification
Social assistance programme
 distribute cash or vouchers or in-kind contributions to vulnerable families
 School feeding
 prevent households from selling their assets
Social insurance programmes
 financed by contributions from employees, employers and from the state
 people protect themselves against risks (sickness, accidents, etc.) by pooling resources with a larger number of
similarly exposed individuals or households.
 Insurance programmes address life cycle, employment and health contingencies.
Labor market programmes
 provide unemployment benefits,
 build skills, and
 enhance workers’ productivity and employability.

7. Social Protection Policies
To reduce
 socio-economic risks,
 vulnerability,
 extreme poverty
 and deprivation,
Agricultural Policies
To improve
 productivity in crops,
 fisheries,
 forestry
 livestock
 and access to markets.
Poverty Reduction Strategy
Issue

8. on the type of instrument used,
 household member receiving the transfer,
 socio-economic status,
 livelihood activities and
 contextual factors
• land tenure arrangements,
• institutional capacities,
• access to markets,
• culture and agro-climate
Cash transfers and public works schemes
 increasing investments in agricultural assets,
 input use and farm output,
 shifting household labor from agricultural wage labor to
on-farm labor
 increasing the quantity and quality of food produced
on the type of instrument used,
 evaluations of cash transfers and public works schemes
 provision of school meals
 education fee waivers.
Cash transfers and public works schemes
 by preventing risk-coping strategies that deplete
household agricultural assets like selling ploughs or
fishing equipment to buy food
 school feeding and education fee waivers
 by increasing investments in human capital
Direct Indirect
Impact of Social Protection on Agriculture

9. Successful programme
Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Programme
 Largest safety net programme in Sub-Saharan Africa
 provides wage employment and uses this labor to build community assets and infrastructure
 assists about 7.5 million people
 rehabilitated over 167,000 hectares of land and 275,000 km of stone and soil embankment
Components
 Participating households invested in livestock, with the impact stronger among households that participated for
longer periods of time.
 households were targeted by agricultural support programmes providing credit, tools, seeds, support to irrigation.
Result:
 programme lowered national poverty by about two percent
 helped reduce the length of beneficiaries’ hungry

10. Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación
 provides cash transfers to mothers in households living in extreme poverty in rural areas
 Cash transfers are conditional on regular school attendance of their children and visits to health care centres.
 programme reaches about 32.9 million individuals
 Reducing deficiencies in:
• height-for-age,
• stunting and overweight,
• and in improving physical, cognitive and language development
 enriched with new components to ensure that families living in poverty continue to invest in their children’s
human capital development

11. Linkages between Social Protection and Agriculture
 smallholder agricultural interventions reduce household vulnerability and risks as measured by
indicators of livelihood security
 Many agricultural interventions increase:
• Household income and income generation capabilities,
• interventions that improve access to microcredit, infrastructure, irrigation, extension
• input technology can lead to improvements in:
 household consumption,
 food security,
 risk taking
 the accumulation of durable assets.

12. Knowledge and Capacity Gaps
 To understand better the role of social protection in agriculture, more study is needed on its impacts on:
• risk management,
• input use, and crop,
• fishery,
• forestry and livestock production;
 the uptake of agricultural technologies to adapt to climate change;
 Natural resources management
 To developing capacities at national level among stakeholders is needed to ensure greater coordination
among social protection, agriculture policies and programmes

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