The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities and tested the responsiveness of food production and social protection systems, especially in rural areas. The policies implemented by governments as part of their social protection response were crucial to protecting production and ensuring food security, promoting and protecting employment, and improving digitalisation in rural areas. Lessons learned from these policies can be extremely useful when designing and implementing new programmes or adapting existing ones. In this context, the Food and Agriculture Organisation Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (FAO-RLC) and the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) joined forces to prepare a series of three policy briefs on the social protection response...
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