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

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 a...

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Autores principales: Coll-Black, Sarah, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hoddinott, John F., Kumar, Neha, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Wiseman, William
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154150
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Sumario: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.