This note summarizes the role social protection can play in saving livelihoods while also enhancing the capacity of households to respond, cope and withstand threats...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Mexico

This study took place in Mexico in 2015. It was led by Gustavo Gordillo along with co-researchers Obed Méndez and Santiago Ruy Sánchez. The report focuses on two core research questions: 1) What are the...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

There is increasing recognition at the global level of the role that agriculture and social protection can jointly play in combating hunger and poverty. Efforts...

Country: Ethiopia

This brief describes the broad array of impacts arising from a cash transfer programme that was piloted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia from 2011 to 2014.

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly...