Benjamin Davis, Strategic Programme Leader, Rural Poverty Reduction at FAO, presents at GIZ workshop "Agriculture Meets Social Protection: How can food and nutrition security benefit?", Eschborn, 7 July 2016
Social Protection and Its Impact on Food and Nutrition SecurityPascal Corbé
Food and Nutrition Security and Social Protection
Lessons Learned, Trends and Conclusions for German Development Cooperation
Gained on Missions to Ethiopia, Cambodia & Malawi
By Elke Kasmann, Martina Kress, Ines Reinhard, Annette Roth of GIZ
Held at Event: Agriculture Meets Social Protection: How can food and nutrition security benefit?
7 July 2016
Présentation par la FAO, Séance thématique sur les approches territoriales et innonvantes de sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle, 33e réunion annuelle du Réseau de prévention des crises alimentaires (RPCA), Cotonou, Bénin, 4-6 décembre 2017
Social Protection and Its Impact on Food and Nutrition SecurityPascal Corbé
Food and Nutrition Security and Social Protection
Lessons Learned, Trends and Conclusions for German Development Cooperation
Gained on Missions to Ethiopia, Cambodia & Malawi
By Elke Kasmann, Martina Kress, Ines Reinhard, Annette Roth of GIZ
Held at Event: Agriculture Meets Social Protection: How can food and nutrition security benefit?
7 July 2016
Présentation par la FAO, Séance thématique sur les approches territoriales et innonvantes de sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle, 33e réunion annuelle du Réseau de prévention des crises alimentaires (RPCA), Cotonou, Bénin, 4-6 décembre 2017
Eugenio Diaz Bonilla
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Funding Food System Transformation in Developing Countries: An example from Ethiopia
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SEP 24, 2021 - 08:00 AM TO 09:30 AM EDT
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Co-Organized by IFPRI, UNSCN, ILSSI, AUC and SEWA
OCT 13, 2020 - 07:30 AM TO 08:30 AM CDT
Social Protection in the Face of Climate Change: Targeting Principles and Fin...BASIS AMA Innovation Lab
BASIS Director Michael Carter and BASIS researcher, Sarah Janzen (Professor, Montana State University), presented in December 2015 on the importance of social protection mechanisms in the face of climate change.
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Eugenio Diaz Bonilla
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UNFSS Side Event -- Co-organized by IFPRI, The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, CGIAR
SEP 24, 2021 - 08:00 AM TO 09:30 AM EDT
Stineke Oenema
WEBINAR
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An official side event of the World Food Prize 2020 Borlaug Dialogue
Co-Organized by IFPRI, UNSCN, ILSSI, AUC and SEWA
OCT 13, 2020 - 07:30 AM TO 08:30 AM CDT
Social Protection in the Face of Climate Change: Targeting Principles and Fin...BASIS AMA Innovation Lab
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Here is a presentation by UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre and UNICEF Regional Office for CEECIS on Child Online Safety at the Robert project final conference in Berlin in 2012.
Integrated agricultural system, migration, and social protection strategies t...ILRI
Presented by Bradford Mills (Virginia Tech), Genti Kostandini (University of Georgia), Anthony Murray (Economic Research Service, USDA), Jiangfeng Gao (Virginia Tech), Joseph Rusike (AGRA), Steven Omamo, Zhe Guo and Jawoo Koo (IFPRI) at the Livestock Systems and Environment (LSE) Seminar, ILRI, Nairobi, 28 January 2015
The World Bank's social protection and labour strategy: Resilience, equity an...SIANI
On the 11th September 2012, SIANI, FAO Norden, Sida and Svenska kyrkan held a seminar called "Cash Transfers, resilience and agriculture development". The role of cash transfers in the context of social protection in stimulating local production and increasing resilience’s of rural communities was discussed as well as a great many other related issues.The seminar was held in Stockholm and also broadcast over the internet.
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Présentation de Jingqing Chai, Chief Social Policy and Economic Analyses DPP/UNICEF NYHQ, à la Conférence Internationale d'Experts sur la mesure et les approches politiques pour améliorer l'équité pour les nouvelles générations dans la région MENA à Rabat, Maroc du 22 au 23 mai 2012.
The role of targeting in social protection programmes what have we learned so...UNDP Policy Centre
During FAO’s Preparatory Meeting for The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 (SOFA) held in Rome on June 30-July 1, IPC-IG presented the draft of the background paper “The role of targeting in Social Protection programmes: what have we learned so far?” The paper focused on the rationale for targeting Social Protection programmes and the different types of targeting, reviewing the evidence of the performance of different targeting strategies, and highlighting the strength and weaknesses of different mechanisms in rural areas.
What is low impact development (LID) and how can it be used to make our communities more engaging? Elizabeth Balderston is a consultant at Urban Systems and has been dedicated to making environmental sustainability and community enhancement top priorities throughout her career. Elizabeth will outline the benefits of LID from social, ecological and financial points-of-view. Her career as a landscape architect and urban designer have made her an expert in the aesthetic and functional integration of built works with green infrastructure. Focusing on a humanistic perspective, she illustrates how LID can make communities more vibrant, livable and safe for their residents.
Social Protection, Economic Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Brazil?UNDP Policy Centre
Presentation by Fabio Veras Soares (IPC-IG) at the Conference on Social Protection, Economic Growth, Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: Lessons from the BRICS- UNDP and National Planning Commission of South Africa. September 2011.
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Presentation by Fabio Veras Soares, IPC-IG Research Coordinator given at the 1st Kenyan Social Protection Conference Week on 28 January, 2015.
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The purpose of the conference was to discuss the current state of Kenya’s Social Protection Policy (2012) implementation, in light of a massive scale up and expansion of its National Safety Net Programme and a move towards an integrated Social Protection System.
Social protection, agriculture and the From Protection to Production projectFAO
http://www.fao.org/economic/PtoP/en/
Presented during the From Protection to Production project workshop, 24-25 September 2013, FAO HQ.
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A presentation by Dr. Benjamin Davis, Director, Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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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.
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Useful information about extreme poverty in Bangladesh and interesting lessons and insights about how to address it. For example: “Three principles for engaging with extreme poor (a blended approach): ensure sufficient present security to enable people to start planning in the future through direct support for sustainable subsistence; combine present survival with future provision for children; and support safety nets, insurance and social protection to cope with vulnerability, uncertainties, hazards and shocks”. For inclusive market facilitators the question then becomes: how can we use market systems to realise those principles? Many thanks to the authors, Joe Devine and Geof Wood, who gave their authorisation to share their work here. Useful information about extreme poverty in Bangladesh and interesting lessons and insights about how to address it. For example: “Three principles for engaging with extreme poor (a blended approach): ensure sufficient present security to enable people to start planning in the future through direct support for sustainable subsistence; combine present survival with future provision for children; and support safety nets, insurance and social protection to cope with vulnerability, uncertainties, hazards and shocks”. For inclusive market facilitators the question then becomes: how can we use market systems to fulfil those principles? Many thanks to the authors, Joe Devine and Geof Wood, who gave their authorisation to share their work here.
Natalia Winder Rossi
POLICY SEMINAR
Boosting Growth to End Hunger by 2025 in Africa: The Role of Social Protection
MAY 2, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT
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The presentation includes videos of the webinar, edited to a 39mins and 10mins versions and videos of pre-recorded inputs that were circulated beforehand to have more time for discussion during the actual webinar and avoid connectivity issues.
The idea is to watch the presentations in your own time beforehand without the usual technical hitches and later join the actual webinar for only the discussion!
More details at https://www.snrd-africa.net/how-to-elevate-rural-youth-representation-for-inclusive-agriculture-and-planning/
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Intégration de l’Adaptation au Changement Climatique dans la Planification Lo...Pascal Corbé
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Joint GIZ-DIE event starting with a keynote by Martina Ulrichs.
Background:
In the past five decades, drought has become a major problem in Africa. It has caused depletion of assets, environmental degradation, impoverishment, unemployment and forced migrations, thus threatening to undermine the development gains made. Especially in the drylands drought represents one of the most important factors contributing to malnutrition and famine that affects the poorest and most vulnerable communities. Climate shocks force poor households to liquidate productive assets such as livestock or land in exchange for food, default on loans, withdraw children from school, and/or engage in exploitive environmental management practices to survive. Furthermore, the lingering risk of drought weakens the ex-post adaptation options as it prevents farmers from adopting profitable technologies and practices that are perceived as risky, hence creating a nexus that increases the cycle of vulnerability and depletes the capability to overcome hunger and poverty. This inability to accept and manage risk and accumulate and retain wealth locks vulnerable populations in poverty and food and nutrition insecurity.
During the last decade, social protection instruments have gained popularity among policy responses to drought. An increasing number of governments in Sub-Saharan Africa have integrated cash transfer and public works schemes into their strategies for food and nutrition security and disaster risk management. These programmes shall prevent disinvestment and depletion of assets and enhance post-drought recovery, adaptation and resilience of livelihoods for the poorest parts of the population in affected areas. Most prominent examples are Ethiopia with its Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), the largest safety net in Africa, outside South Africa, or the Kenya´s Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP). But can social protection programmes factually deliver the promises made?
Panellists:
Martina Ulrichs (Independent consultant)
Ralf Radermacher (GIZ)
Guush Berhane (IFPRI)
Bettina Tewinkel (KfW)
Moderators:
Markus Loewe (DIE)
The event is part of a series:
Research meets Development:
Drought resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
Event series in the context of the “One World – No Hunger” (SEWOH) initiative of the
German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in the summer term 2017
More on the series at: https://www.die-gdi.de/veranstaltungen/drought-resilience-in-sub-saharan-africa/
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- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
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Highlights
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March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
Social Protection and Agriculture for Food Security: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty, Implications for Development Cooperation
1. Social protection and agriculture for food
security: breaking the cycle of poverty
Implications for development cooperation
Benjamin Davis
Strategic Programme Leader, Rural Poverty Reduction
Food and Agriculture Organization
GIZ
July 7, 2016
2. Social protection and agriculture:
breaking the cycle of rural poverty and hunger
• Despite recent progress, almost 1 billion live in extreme
poverty, and almost 800 million are hungry
• Both extreme poverty and hunger increasingly
concentrated in Sub Saharan Africa and in rural areas
• Economic growth necessary but not sufficient
– Needs to be inclusive to reach the poorest
• Both social protection and targeted agricultural
programmes are necessary to make growth inclusive and
break the cycle of rural poverty and hunger
– Reach SDGs 1 and 2
• Both social protection and complementary programmes,
including agriculture, are necessary to address malnutrition
• Given nature of poor, rural households in low income
countries, we cannot separate livelihoods from food
security and nutrition from social objectives
3. Why is agriculture important to ending hunger?
Example of Sub Saharan Africa
• Agriculture constitutes 1/3 of GDP
• 2/3 depend on agriculture for their livelihood
• Women comprise about 50% of agricultural labor
force participation
– 60% of employed women are in agriculture
• Families produce a large share of own consumption
4. The future of Sub Saharan Africa:
More, not less, reliance on agriculture
• GDP growth originating in agriculture is 2 to 3 times
as effective in reducing poverty as GDP growth
originating outside of agriculture
• Most of recent decline in global rural poverty
attributable to better conditions in rural areas rather
than out migration of the poor
• Sub Saharan Africa remains poor because of the
failure of agriculture
– Environmental and institutional context
– Public policy
5. The future of Sub Saharan Africa:
More, not less, reliance on agriculture
• Many countries must largely feed themselves
• Increasing and stabilizing domestic food production is
essential for food security
• Productivity of food staples is key to economic growth
• Kick-starting poverty reduction requires accelerated
growth in staple output on small family farms
– Relies on improving productivity, profitability and
sustainability of smallholder farming within process of
structural transformation
• Other regions farther along path of structural
transformation
– Similar story, but greater role of rural non farm economy
6. What is social protection?
• Set of interventions whose objective is to reduce social
and economic risk and vulnerability, and to alleviate
extreme poverty and deprivation
• Three broad types of programmes
– Social assistance: publically provided unconditional or conditional
in-kind or cash transfers; public works
– Social insurance: pooled, contributory insurance programmes
– Labour market protection: provide unemployment benefits, build
skills and enhance workers’ productivity and employability
• Around the world, some 2.1 billion people receive some
form of social protection
• Coverage is lowest in regions with highest poverty
– Particularly rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia
7. What is the role of social protection in
reducing poverty and hunger?
• Social protection reduces poverty
– In 2013 social protection measures prevented 150 million
people worldwide from falling into poverty
– Directly, by increasing incomes; indirectly, by increasing
income generating capacity
– Increasing resilience and managing risk
• Social protection programmes reduce food insecurity
and seasonal hunger:
– Improve quantity and quality of food consumption and
increase dietary diversity
• Having a social protection system in place allows
governments to react quickly in times of crisis
8. By itself, social protection unlikely to
lead to improved nutritional status
• Example of unconditional cash transfers in SSA (Transfer
Project)—no impacts on young child nutritional status
(anthropometry)
– Evidence from Kenya CT-OVC, South Africa CSG, Zambia CGP,
Malawi SCTP, Zimbabwe HSCT
– Similar story from CCTs in Latin America
• Why?
– Determinants of nutrition complex, involve care, sanitation, water,
disease environment and food
– Weak health infrastructure in isolated rural areas
• Indeed, heterogeneous impacts
– If mother has higher education (Zambia CGP and South Africa
CSG) or if protected water source in home (Zambia CGP)
9. Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition:
• nutrition-specific programmes not enough
• need to address root causes of poverty and social inequality
Social protection is but one key component
in reducing malnutrition—access/basic causes
10. How does social protection address some of
underlying causes of malnutrition?
• Reducing poverty and increasing purchasing power (+++)
• Enhancing households productive capacity (+++)
• Increasing quality and quantity of food consumption (+++)
• Mitigating negative effects of shocks (+++)
• Enhancing women’s empowerment (+)
• Increasing demand for health and education services (++)
• Reducing morbidity (++)
• Increasing child material welfare (+++)
11. Social protection can be made
more nutrition-sensitive
• Explicit objectives around nutrition
• Targeting (LEAP 1000)
• Complementary, nutrition-specific components
– Micronutrients for small children
– Education, capacity building
• Messaging and promotion
12. Social protection also has important
implications for livelihoods—which
feeds back to food security and nutrition
and other, social, objectives
From Protection to Production
13. Why do livelihoods matter for social protection?
Example of SSA
• Most beneficiaries are rural, engaged in agriculture
and work for themselves
– >80% produce crops; >50% have livestock
• Most use traditional technology and low levels of
modern inputs to produce local staples
– Primarily consumed on farm
• Most have low levels of productive assets
– Few hectares of land, few animals, basic tools, few years
of education
• Engaged in casual wage labour (ganyu) and non
farm business
• Large share of children work on the family farm
– 50% in Zambia, 30% in Lesotho, 42% in Kenya
14. What is unique about a small family farmer?
• Missing/poorly functioning markets link production
and consumption activities
– Credit, insurance, labor and input market failures
– Constrain economic decisions in investment, production,
labor allocation, risk taking
– Safety first, rather then profit maximization
• Implications for “social” side—you cannot separate
from livelihoods
– Labor allocation (adults and children), including domestic
chores and care giving
– Intra household decision making
– Investment in schooling and health
– Food consumption, dietary diversity and nutrition
– Negative risk coping strategies
15. Social protection improves livelihoods
Evidence from SSA
• Long term effects of improved human capital (+++)
– Improved nutritional and health status; educational
attainment
– Leading to increased labor productivity and employability
• Increase on and off farm investment and production
(+++)
– Relaxing constraints brought on by market failure (credit,
insurance)
– Leading to increase in input use, tools, livestock and crop
production
• Help households manage risk (+++)
– Reduce negative risk-coping strategies
– Increase savings, pay off debt
• Strengthen social networks and informal insurance
mechanisms (+++)
16. Social protection strengthens livelihoods
instead of fostering dependency
• Social protection influences labour choices, but
does not reduce work effort. Beneficiaries work
differently, not less
• Social protection increases flexibility; adults
tend to move from casual agricultural wage
labour of last resort to on farm activities
• Children work less and go to school more
17. Social protection boosts demand for locally made goods and
services and creates community infrastructure
• “Ghana’s LEAP has had a positive impact on
local economic growth. Beneficiaries spend
about 80 percent of their income on the local
economy. Every Cedi transferred to a beneficiary
has the potential of increasing the local
economy by Cedi 2.50.”
– Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama, April 2014
• Public works
programmes can
provide important
infrastructure and
community assets.
18. What makes social protection
programmes effective?
• Our research shows:
– Sufficiently large transfer levels
– Regular and predictable
– Know who to target….and reach them
– Messaging matters
– Design AND implementation
– Focus on women
19. Articulating social protection and agriculture as
part of a strategy of rural development
• Social protection does a lot but can’t do everything
– Deals with access and risk
– Addressing malnutrition requires additional nutrition
specific complementary measures
– Addressing poverty and food security requires agricultural
programmes and social services to relax structural
constraints
– Rural non farm economy, etc.
• Eliminating poverty, food insecurity and
malnutrition requires a long-term, predictable
package of social protection and complementary
measures
20. Our websites
From Protection to Production Project
http://www.fao.org/economic/PtoP/en/
The Transfer Project
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/transfer