The study looks at the scope within which positive interaction between social protection and livelihoods can be maximised.
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The objective of this paper is to inform DFID’s position paper on social protection about the ways in which food security issues should be taken into account in developing social protection policies, strategies and programmes. Interestingly, the international...
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There is growing evidence that in some countries, acute food crisis takes place against a backdrop of increasingly entrenched chronic food insecurity. Malawi, with its high population density, diminishing farm size, decreasing soil fertility, high cost of...
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This paper asks what is meant by social protection, clarifying its meaning, purpose and scope. It draws on a series of related ODI theme papers on social protection - all prepared for the Africa Commission in 2005. These covered social protection and: rights-...
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This paper argues that questions of how to operationalise the principles contained in the (modified) World Bank Social Risk Management approach are of crucial importance, but pose considerable challenges. Whilst “Rural Worlds 1, 2 and 3” provide a basis for...
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This chapter argues that, far from 'draining' public funds and so reducing public investment in the productive sectors, initiatives to reduce risk and vulnerability, if managed well, can enhance the engagement of the poor in markets, and so stimulate...
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