Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

-We assess the impact of a large-scale social protection intervention, Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), over a 15-year period. -We find that the PSNP had a positive impact on food security but inconsistent impacts on assets. There were positive impacts on fertilizer use, investm...

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Main Authors: Hoddinott, John F., Berhane, Guush, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hirvonen, Kalle, Kumar, Neha, Lind, Jeremy, Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
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Published: United Nations University 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163290
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author Hoddinott, John F.
Berhane, Guush
Gilligan, Daniel O.
Hirvonen, Kalle
Kumar, Neha
Lind, Jeremy
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
author_browse Berhane, Guush
Gilligan, Daniel O.
Hirvonen, Kalle
Hoddinott, John F.
Kumar, Neha
Lind, Jeremy
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
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Berhane, Guush
Gilligan, Daniel O.
Hirvonen, Kalle
Kumar, Neha
Lind, Jeremy
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
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description -We assess the impact of a large-scale social protection intervention, Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), over a 15-year period. -We find that the PSNP had a positive impact on food security but inconsistent impacts on assets. There were positive impacts on fertilizer use, investments in terracing, and cereal yields but only when the program was twinned with complementary programming. -The PSNP enabled households to be more resilient to covariate shocks. There were no adverse incentive effects on labour supply or fertility. There is some evidence that it improved schooling outcomes and reduced child labour but not child nutrition outcomes. -Payment levels, uncertainty about when payments would take place, and processes associated with making payments all played a role in generating these mixed impacts. -These also illustrate that while complementary programming can enhance the impact of transfers, adding complementary programming at scale is challenging when resources are limited.
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spelling CGSpace1632902025-12-08T10:29:22Z Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme Hoddinott, John F. Berhane, Guush Gilligan, Daniel O. Hirvonen, Kalle Kumar, Neha Lind, Jeremy Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum food security social protection fertilizers terrace cropping cereal crops resilience labour nutrition -We assess the impact of a large-scale social protection intervention, Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), over a 15-year period. -We find that the PSNP had a positive impact on food security but inconsistent impacts on assets. There were positive impacts on fertilizer use, investments in terracing, and cereal yields but only when the program was twinned with complementary programming. -The PSNP enabled households to be more resilient to covariate shocks. There were no adverse incentive effects on labour supply or fertility. There is some evidence that it improved schooling outcomes and reduced child labour but not child nutrition outcomes. -Payment levels, uncertainty about when payments would take place, and processes associated with making payments all played a role in generating these mixed impacts. -These also illustrate that while complementary programming can enhance the impact of transfers, adding complementary programming at scale is challenging when resources are limited. 2024-12 2024-12-10T15:28:36Z 2024-12-10T15:28:36Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163290 en Open Access United Nations University Hoddinott, John; Berhane, Guush; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hirvonen, Kalle; Kumar, Neha; Lind, Jeremy; Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2024. Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme. WIDER Working Paper 2024/76. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2024/539-4
spellingShingle food security
social protection
fertilizers
terrace cropping
cereal crops
resilience
labour
nutrition
Hoddinott, John F.
Berhane, Guush
Gilligan, Daniel O.
Hirvonen, Kalle
Kumar, Neha
Lind, Jeremy
Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
title Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
title_full Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
title_fullStr Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
title_full_unstemmed Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
title_short Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
title_sort securing food building livelihoods a 15 year appraisal of ethiopia s productive safety net programme
topic food security
social protection
fertilizers
terrace cropping
cereal crops
resilience
labour
nutrition
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163290
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