Agricultural workers are exposed to many risks during their life cycle and are particularly vulnerable to covariate risks, such as droughts, armed conflict and pandemics. Despite the great potential of social protection policies to protect...

Work area: Social Protection and Resilience

The aim of this study is to provide readers with an overview of how agricultural insurance and social protection interventions can complement each other, within the frame...

Work area: Social Protection and Resilience

Climate change poses a major threat to reducing poverty, eradicating hunger, and achieving sustainable development. It accelerates the frequency and intensity of extreme natural hazards, thus affecting...

Work area: Social Protection and Resilience

Country: Mexico

This paper is a summary of the institutional analysis of the proyecto de inclusión productiva rural (proinpro), intended to analyse the institutional mechanisms that determined the effectiveness and restrictions of the coordination between this...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Zambia

Promoting coherence and the articulation between social and productive interventions, which target the same population of poor smallholder farmers, can trigger synergistic effects with a grater rich than standalone programs. The complementarity can also contribute...