Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Mali

Neither agriculture nor social protection alone can address all the constraints faced by poor rural households. Combined interventions are shown to have greater impacts than stand-alone interventions in assisting vulnerable populations to combat poverty and...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Lesotho

Complementarities between social protection and rural livelihood interventions can generate synergies by strategically addressing constraints faced by poor rural households. These constraints cannot be addressed by either agriculture or social protection interventions alone. The complementarities...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s population is overwhelmingly rural. Rural peoples are constantly exposed to extreme poverty and chronic food shortages and depend mostly on smallholder farming and livestock herding for their livelihood. This makes the promotion of coherence...

Coordination between social protection programmes and productive rural development can help poor and vulnerable households overcome the poverty trap and break its intergenerational transmission. This is demonstrated by four studies carried out in Ethiopia, Lesotho,...

This research report presents a case study of the application of the proposed methodology to Sudan using data captured...