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

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...

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...

Country: Peru

It is a summary of the results of a study focusing on the haku wiñay productive project. The authors conducted an impact assessment of haku wiñay and a soft skills programme that was provided...