Download or read book The Role of Productive Safety Net Program on Rural Food Insecurity written by Zeinu Urgessa Nuru and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity in developing countries has been so serious & became the concern of the entire world. The problem is worse in Ethiopian, where the responses have conditionally been dominated by emergency appeals. These interventions had several shortcomings of which absence of national safety net framework that address all the poor in all time was the most crucial; thus, a switch from annual emergency appeals to multi-annual predictable resource transfer has usually been recommended. Cognizant of this in 2004 Ethiopia and its development partners installed PSNP to facilitate the shift towards more predictable response with predictable resources for predictable problem. Therefore, what were the impacts of PSNP on chronically food insecure households? What were the challenges limiting its positive outcomes? and What were the lessons learned and questions still unanswered? This book dealt with the detail account of these questions.
Download or read book COVID 19 and food security in Ethiopia Do social protection programs protect written by Abay, Kibrom A. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We assess the impact of Ethiopia’s flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition security of households, mothers, and children. We use both pre-pandemic in-person household survey data and a post-pandemic phone survey. Two thirds of our respondents reported that their incomes had fallen after the pandemic began and almost half reported that their ability to satisfy their food needs had worsened. Employing a household fixed effects difference-in-difference approach, we find that the household food insecurity increased by 11.7 percentage points and the size of the food gap by 0.47 months in the aftermath of the onset of the pandemic. Participation in the PSNP offsets virtually all of this adverse change; the likelihood of becoming food insecure increased by only 2.4 percentage points for PSNP households and the duration of the food gap increased by only 0.13 months. The protective role of PSNP is greater for poorer households and those living in remote areas. Results are robust to definitions of PSNP participation, different estimators and how we account for the non-randomness of mobile phone ownership. PSNP households were less likely to reduce expenditures on health and education by 7.7 percentage points and were less likely to reduce expenditures on agricultural inputs by 13 percentage points. By contrast, mothers’ and children’s diets changed little, despite some changes in the composition of diets with consumption of animal source foods declining significantly.
Download or read book Social protection and resilience The case of the productive safety net program in Ethiopia written by Abay, Kibrom A. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving household resilience is becoming one of the key focus and target of social protection programs in Africa. However, there is surprisingly little direct evidence of the impacts of social protection programs on household resilience measures. We use five rounds of panel data to examine rural households’ resilience outcomes associated with participation in Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP). Following Cissé and Barrett (2018), we employ a probabilistic moment-based approach for measuring resilience and evaluate the role of PSNP transfers and duration of participation on households’ resilience. We document four important findings. First, although PSNP transfers are positively associated with resilience, PSNP transfers below the median are less likely to generate meaningful improvements in resilience. Second, continuous participation in the PSNP participation is associated with higher resilience. Third, combining safety nets with income generating or asset building initiatives may be particularly efficacious at building poor households’ resilience. Fourth, our evaluation of both short-term welfare outcomes and longer-term resilience suggests that these outcomes are likely to be driven by different factors, suggesting that optimizing intervention designs for improving short term welfare impacts may not necessarily improve households’ resilience, and vice versa. Together, our findings imply that effectively boosting household resilience may require significant transfers over multiple years. National safety nets programs that transfer small amounts to beneficiaries over limited time horizons may not be very effective.
Download or read book Food Security Safety Nets and Social Protection in Ethiopia written by Dessalegn Rahmato and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, which examines Ethiopia's food security strategy and the safety net program from different approaches and perspectives in the context of the development of a social protection policy, is a continuation of that tradition ... Ethiopia's safety net program is one of the largest and most influential social protection schemes in Africa and, as noted by several authors in this volume, provides important lessons beyond the Ethiopian context."--Back cover.
Download or read book Impacts of productive safety net program on the livelihoods of rural households written by Tsegaye Denberie and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Agrarian Studies, grade: B+, University of Gondar (Collage of Agriculture and rural Transformation), course: Agricultural Economics, language: English, abstract: This study evaluated the impact of productive safety net program on the livelihood of rural households of Libo Kemkem woreda. Towards this end, data were collected from 210 randomly selected households of which 119 were program participants and 91 were non-program participant’s selected from four Kebeles of the woreda, where the productive safety net program was implemented. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and econometric analysis. Results from descriptive statistics revealed that among program participants and non participants, the total annual income has increased averagely by 14467.2 birr and 11469.2 birr. The average livestock holding was 3.7230 TLU and 1.4878 TLU for participant and non-participant households, respectively. Thus, the program enables them to through avoidance of forced disposal in response to shock (increase) their livestock holdings. Applying a propensity score matching technique, it was found that the program has significantly increased participating households’ total income by 59.1%, livestock asset by 14.09% and consumption expenditure by 22.61% compared to non-participating households. The estimated results also revealed that, households in the program has better access to credit, small land size and better access on agricultural extension, access to aid and less access to irrigation. Finally, physical and biological conservation measures should be widely incorporated, access to extension service for the utilization of new technologies and for policy concern. Generally both households increase their livelihood activities respectively interms of livelihood.
Download or read book Analyzing the Effectiveness of the Productive Safety Net Programme in the Food Security of Female headed Households in Ethiopia in 2009 written by Wilbert Enrique Hidalgo and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper assesses the impact of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) on the food security outcomes of female-headed households in Ethiopia. Using data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Surveys (EHRS) for 2009, the present study tests whether the PSNP reported worse food security outcomes for female-headed households, compared to male-headed households, given their lower literacy rates, land ownership, and time constraints that prevent them from fully benefitting from the PSNP. Ordinary Least Square Results show that being a female-headed household that receives PSNP benefits has a positive effect on one of the food security outcomes, since it reduces the probability of having a food shortage. However, due to the fact that access to the PSNP was not randomized Propensity Score Matching has to be used instead to better identify its impact on the food security of rural Ethiopian households. Propensity Matching Scores techniques reveal that the program has no impact on female-headed households. A statistically significant impact of the Program is found in male-headed households and in overall households; however, the expected effect is the opposite, since the PSNP worsens food security outcomes in analyzed households. Although the present document shows that the PSNP is not very effective at addressing food insecurity, it also suggests that more studies are needed to find further explanations of the Program's effects. We do not know if all PSNP beneficiaries actually receive all the benefits they are supposed to get, nor we know whether they receive any benefits in a timely fashion. Moreover, our Program variable is not a continuous variable that indicates the amount of money or the volume of food received. Therefore, the failure of the PSNP could not be related to the Program itself but to its poor implementation.
Download or read book Synopsis Ethiopia s social protection program is associated with improved household resilience written by Abay, Kibrom A. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the implication of the Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia on the economic resilience of rural households. Using five-rounds of household panel data covering nine years, we implement a recently developed probabilistic moment-based approach to measure resilience and evaluate the role of PSNP transfers and duration of participation in PSNP on household resilience. We document three important findings. First, although PSNP transfers are positively strongly associated with resilience, we find that transfers below the median are less likely to generate meaningful improvements in resilience. Second, continuous participation in PSNP is associated with higher resilience. Third, our evaluation of both short-term welfare outcomes and longer-term resilience suggests that these outcomes are likely to be driven by different factors. These findings suggest boosting household resilience will require significant investments in social protection programs and continuous participation in these programs. Our findings have important implications for the design and targeting of social protection programs in Africa, where safety nets programs generally operate at small scale with small transfers to beneficiaries over relatively short durations.
Download or read book Baseline survey report of the Strengthen PSNP Institutions and Resilience phase II SPIR II resilience food security activity in Ethiopia written by Gilligan, Daniel O. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this report is to present results from the baseline survey conducted as part of the Implementer-Led Evaluation and Learning (IMPEL) evaluation of SPIR II, a randomized controlled trial launched in 2022. The second phase of the Strengthen PSNP Institutions and Resilience (SPIR) Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) aims to enhance livelihoods, increase resilience to shocks, and improve food security and nutrition for rural households vulnerable to food insecurity in Ethiopia. The RFSA is situated within Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), one of the largest safety net programs in Africa. Funded by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), SPIR II is implemented by World Vision International (lead), CARE, and ORDA in the Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia. The IMPEL SPIR II impact evaluation employs an experimental design with three arms, comparing two treatment combinations of livelihood and nutrition graduation model programming provided to PSNP beneficiaries relative to a control group receiving only PSNP transfers. The treatment assignment is randomized at kebele level in 234 kebeles. In the first arm (the control group), PSNP is implemented by the government with SPIR II support for the provision of cash and food transfers only (no supplemental programming). In the second arm, SPIR II programming is rolled out to PSNP beneficiary households in conjunction with nurturing care groups (NCGs) targeting enhanced infant and young child nutritional practices. In the third arm, PSNP beneficiary households receive SPIR II programming and NCGs, supplemented with additional targeted cash grants to pregnant and lactating women.
Download or read book The Impact of Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program on Children s Educational Aspirations written by Aregawi Gebremariam and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's educational aspirations are important predictors of educational attainment and of occupational success. However, aspirations can be affected by whether an individual is poor or rich. This paper evaluates the impacts of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), launched by the government of Ethiopia in 2005/06 to support food insecure rural households, on children's educational aspirations. Using longitudinal data from the Young Lives' survey in Ethiopia and applying a differences-in-differences methodology, we find that the program increases educational aspirations of children. In our preferred specification, the immediate effect of the program is to increase by 0.73 years of education aspirations of children. Furthermore, we find that aspirations are affected also in the long run, even if the point estimates are sensible to model specification. The results point to broad and long lasting positive effects of a program designed to relieve chronically poor households from food insecurity.
Download or read book Food Security in Sub Saharan Africa written by Stephen Devereux and published by ITDG Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most contributions reflect an evolution of thinking during the 1990s.
Download or read book Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India written by Prabhu Pingali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity along with micro-nutrient deficiency portend to a future public health crisis. This book explores various challenges and opportunities to achieve a nutrition-secure future through diversified production systems, improved health and hygiene environment and greater individual capability to access a balanced diet contributing to an increase in overall productivity. The authors bring together the latest data and scientific evidence from the country to map out the current state of food systems and nutrition outcomes. They place India within the context of other developing country experiences and highlight India’s status as an outlier in terms of the persistence of high levels of stunting while following global trends in obesity. This book discusses the policy and institutional interventions needed for promoting a nutrition-sensitive food system and the multi-sectoral strategies needed for simultaneously addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in India.
Download or read book Fighting Food Insecurity written by Chemeda Bokora and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrary to the spectacular achievements in the developed world life in the developing world is haunted by the predicaments of poverty and the catastrophic effects of food insecurity. Millions of people in the south are defenseless against series of calamities including persistent food insecurity. They are unable to secure regular supply of food. By the same token, food insecurity is a defining feature of rural poverty in Ethiopia. This stubbornly uneradicated evil has given impetus to public efforts. Issues of food in/security have presently taken center stage. Save for, detailed and closer look at the actions-private or public-taken in relation to these issues are often not in place. Firmly rooted in empirical research, this book aims to provide readers with an up-to-date understanding of the role Productive Safety Net Program, a program currently under implementation in Ethiopia, is playing in curbing the preponderance of food insecurity.
Download or read book Transformative Social Protection written by Stephen Devereux and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of the Impact of Productive Safety Net Program PSNP on Rural Welfare in Ethiopia written by Gashaw Hailu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article reviews the empirical literature on the impact of the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on different welfare outcomes of rural households in Ethiopia. The main finding of the review is that the PSNP had in general positive impacts on some attributes. PSNP has been found to have positive impacts on the food security of households, increasing crop yield and households' income. It has also been found to impact welfare in the form of improved health and school attendance, higher rates of insurance uptake, and improved cognitive skills in children. However, there is scant evidence on how much PSNP has protected or mitigated the possible deterioration in the purchasing power of beneficiaries after shocks such as drought and food price spikes. There is one exception to this literature gap, which showed that PSNP had a role in mitigating the adverse impact of inflation on the cognitive skills of children. In the face of declining land to labour ratio, increasing population, changing climate and environmental challenges, an important issue that needs to be addressed through research is the impact of PSNP on the longer-term perspective of agricultural transformation in Ethiopia. Furthermore, an implicit assumption in almost all major studies in the country in relation to social protection interventions such as PSNP is that, rural agricultural households can make a better livelihood within the framework of agriculture. A process of rural transformation requires engagement of households in side-line activities such as cottage industry, small scale manufacturing and services activities. Investigating the role of PSNP in this regard might be useful.
Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.
Download or read book The Contribution of Productive Safety Net Program in Improving Food Security Status Among Public Work Beneficiary Households the Case of Meskan District Southern Ethiopia written by Tewodros Tekeste and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks on assessing the contribution of Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in improving the food security condition of Public Work (PW) beneficiary in the case of Meskan district, Southern Ethiopia. In doing so, the study explores what differences exist in food security status of PSNP beneficiary households before they join the program and after they joining the PSNP. It also looks how beneficiary households do perceive the changes in their food security that brought about by the intervention of the PSNP. Data for this study was generated from both primary and secondary sources through mainly household case stories, Focus Group Discussion (FGDs), key informants, observation and review relevant documents as well. The fieldwork was specifically carried out in two sub-districts. Both district and sub-districts of the study areas were selected in consultation with key informants on the basis of their critical vulnerability to food insecurity condition in comparison to other areas. The findings of this study show that various factors such as low access to productive resources such as shortage of farmland, population pressure, inadequate use of fertilizer, lack of income to use improved seed, lack of productive labor, low employment opportunity and erratic rainfall are responsible for food insecurity condition in the study area. Furthermore, frequent shocks like drought and environmental degradation exacerbate households and community asset depletion. These causes low productivity of agriculture in the district. The case study participants reported that the degree of suffering into food deficiency and resource scarcity were very high before the intervention of the PSNP. They also indicated that after they participated in the program six months of the food gap period was reduced by three up to four months. They further mentioned that being the beneficiary in PSNP not only narrowing the food gap period, it also greatly contributed to smoothening household food consumption (e.g. increasing the number of meals per day) Moreover, the PSNP transfer also helps to boost the use of agricultural inputs which lead to increased agricultural production and productivity. This, in turn, leads to improve the food security condition of the study participants. In the study, its also observed that there are encouraging activities performed by PW activities of PSNP. These public work activities of the PSNP include terracing, soil and water conservation, and construction of check-dams, ponds, and environmental rehabilitation practices contributed to maintain natural resources and improving the size of harvest from agricultural production. Besides this public works on road network development, school and health posts also benefited all community in the study area were highly encouraged. The study households were confirmed that these changes were observed after the intervention of the PSNP. However, the study revealed that all of the case study participants neither food self-sufficient nor food secure even after the implementation of PSNP. Therefore, the study investigate PSNP alone is not adequate enough to attain food security in a context of the study area where households are chronically food insecure. Therefore, a coordination effort between PSNP and other food security program is recommended.
Download or read book Strengthening coherence between social protection and agriculture written by Kebede, G.D., Bhalla, G., Grinspun, A., Nyang, S., Prifti, E. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Integrated Nutrition Social Cash Transfer (IN-SCT) pilot project was embedded within Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme phase 4 (PSNP4). The PSNP4 programme supports food insecure households through two components: a cash transfer component that requires the recipient to participate in public work activities or to comply with soft conditionalities on access to social and health services; and a livelihood support component. This evaluation report presents the impacts of PSNP/IN-SCT on productive outcomes ranging from crop and livestock production to labour supply, non-farm businesses, use of inputs and the like. The report is part of a wider evaluation study that brings together IFPRI, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at University of Sussex and Cornell University. While these organizations set up the study design and focused their analyses of impacts on outcomes related to food security, hygiene, access to health services and nutritional status, FAO has contributed by analysing the productive impacts of the programme. This paper is being published in the context of a partnership between FAO, IFAD and the Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES) and its Centro de Estudios en Desarrollo Económico (CEDE) based in Bogotá, Colombia.
