Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

This study explores the interaction between formal social protection and agriculture by proposing a theory of change and conducting an empirical review that identifies how social protection impacts agricultural production and how agricultural interventions reduce...

The From Protection to Production (PtoP) project aims to identify productive impacts of cash transfer programmes covering three thematic areas of inquiry: household economic decision-making, the local economy and social networks and risk sharing. The...

The LEWIE methodology is designed to understand the full impact of cash transfers on local economies, including on the production activities of both beneficiary and non-beneficiary groups; how these effects change when programs are scaled...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed a three-year agreement with the research programme at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) – the From Protection to Production (PtoP) project...

Country: Malawi

Journal of Development EffectivenessVol. 4, No. 1, March 2012, 50–77 From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme Katia Covarrubiasa*, Benjamin Davisa and Paul Winters