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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| Formato: | Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154150 |
| 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. |
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