Yesterday, FAO and UNICEF presented their new joint publication From Evidence to Action: The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluations in Sub-Saharan Africa, which provides a detailed account on how cash transfers have expanded dramatically in the past two decades, becoming a key social protection tool, improving consumption, school attendance,...

As a joint collaboration to linking social protection to sustainable food security and inclusive agricultural development, FAO and ILO’s International Training Centre delivered a course to nearly 100 participants, complementing each other around a common purpose. This year’s Academy on Social Security (19-30 September) featured a partnership between FAO and ILO,...

Cash transfers have expanded dramatically in the last two decades, becoming key tools for social protection and economic empowerment in developing countries. Until now the rise of cash has been fueled by evidence drawn mostly from conditional cash models in Latin America. In the new book, From Evidence to Action: The...

An innovative approach to combating poverty and hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa is making its way into international development discourse. This involves bringing together agricultural and social protection interventions to support small family farmers in taking part in, and contributing to the process of agricultural transformation in Zambia. Poverty reduction is a...