INCATA: Linked Farms and Enterprises for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa and Asia
INCATA is an innovative project designed to study the relationship between cSPP and MSME in the hidden middle of agrifood value chains, to explain how it underpins and contributes to an inclusive agricultural transformation.
Strengthening coherence between social protection and productive interventions in four African countries
This policy brief discusses how linking social protection and rural development programs can help vulnerable households escape poverty and increase their resilience to shocks. It highlights findings from studies in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mali, and Zambia.
Improving coordination and synergy between social protection and agriculture in Ethiopia
This policy brief, highlights how linking social protection and rural development programs can help vulnerable households escape poverty and increase their resilience to external shocks, like COVID-19. The study focuses on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) and the Improved Nutrition through Integrated Basic Social Services with Social Cash Transfer (IN-SCT) pilot.
Africa: Building bridges between social and productive inclusion policies
Strengthening coherence between social
protection and productive interventions in
four African countries
Ethiopia: Building bridges between social and productive inclusion policies
Ethiopia has a land area of 1.1 million km2 and a population of more than 100 million. Its economy is largely based on agriculture, which employs two
thirds of the population and accounts for about one third (31.2 percent) of its gdp (world development indicators). Most of the agricultural sector is based on smallholder farmers, who produce about 94
percent of the country’s food crops and 98 percent of the coffee. A sizeable proportion of the rural population depends on social protection to bridge the food gap arising from recurrent drought and other shocks. This implies that both social protection and agriculture are important sectors to address food insecurity and poverty in rural ethiopia. They should therefore be planned and implemented in an integrated and coherent manner.