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Targeting food security interventions in Ethiopia: The productive safety net programme

In: Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy challenges

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  • Coll-Black, Sarah
  • Gilligan, Daniel O.
  • Hoddinott, John F.
  • Kumar, Neha
  • Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
  • Wiseman, William

Abstract

In Ethiopia, as in many other African countries, there is a pressing need to improve household food security. An emerging consensus suggests that this is most easily accomplished through two development strategies with two complementary dimensions: investments that facilitate income generation and asset accumulation, discussed elsewhere in this book, and interventions that protect the poorest from hunger, prevent asset depletion, and provide a platform for the growth interventions. Because resources for such interventions are limited, there needs to be a mechanism for allocating these.

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  • Coll-Black, Sarah & Gilligan, Daniel O. & Hoddinott, John F. & Kumar, Neha & Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum & Wiseman, William, 2012. "Targeting food security interventions in Ethiopia: The productive safety net programme," IFPRI book chapters, in: Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy challenges, chapter 10, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Daniel Gilligan & John Hoddinott & Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, 2009. "The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme and its Linkages," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(10), pages 1684-1706.
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