Safety nets as a means of tackling chronic food insecurity in rural southern Ethiopia: what is constraining programme contributions?

Dejene, Melisew; Cochrane, Logan

doi:10.1080/02255189.2021.1914559

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“…However, the literature also makes clear that local contexts matter; and how climate shocks are manifested, whether as food shortages, rising prices, or falling incomes, is likely to influence the most appropriate design of the policy instrument. Dejene and Cochrane (2021) collected data for 387 land scarce or landless households enrolled in the PSNP programme from Ethiopia's Southern region in 2017 and 2018. Almost all the households experienced some dimension of food insecurity, indeed 92 per cent reported worrying that their household would not have enough food, yet 88 per cent of the households are reported to have used their cash transfers to pay off debts.…”

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Improving Food Policies for a Climate Insecure World: Evidence From Ethiopia

Dasgupta

Robinson

2021

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Climate change and weather shocks have multi-faceted impacts on food systems with important implications for economic policy. Combining a longitudinal household survey with high-resolution climate data, we demonstrate that both climate and weather shocks increase food insecurity; cash assistance and participation in Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme have reduced food insecurity; but food assistance has been ineffective. Importantly, households with savings, and those that stored their harvest to sell at higher prices rather than for home use, suffered less from food insecurity, yet both strategies are harder for the poorest and most food insecure households to adopt. Our paper provides micro-founded evidence needed to design policies that both improve agricultural yields in the context of a changing climate and target households’ abilities to cope with shocks that put upwards pressure on food prices.

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Improving Food Policies for a Climate Insecure World: Evidence From Ethiopia

Dasgupta

Robinson

2021

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“…The safety net is intended as a means to address social, economic, cultural, and environmental conservation issues. Safety nets are defined as alternatives and strategies to overcome problems in pre-disaster and post-disaster (Dejene & Cochrane, 2022). The vulnerability and disaster assessment approach described disaster-prone areas as vulnerable locations to extreme and unexpected events due to disasters.…”

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A lesson learned from the success of disaster prone village transformation into a socioeconomic cultural safety net and environmental conservation

Tobirin,

Hongwiset,

Rokhman

et al. 2023

J. Pendidik. Geogr. Kajian, Teor. dan Prakt. dalam Bid. Pendidi

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The villages in the Slamet mountain area has two exciting sides, as it carries abundant potential but is prone to disasters. Fascinatingly, the local community can transform disaster-prone villages by hammering the development of potential natural tourism potential, bringing benefits for nature conservation and economic resilience. Therefore, this study aims to describe the disaster-prone village’s processes in developing their tourism potential into a source of socioeconomic and cultural resilience, as well as safe tourism. This qualitative research used purposive sampling for selecting the informant, while the data collection methods were carried out through in-depth interviews, observations, and focus group discussions (FGDs). Then, the interactive data analysis methods were adopted in analyzing the data, while data validity was examined through triangulation. The results show that the key to success in developing disaster-prone villages into safe tourism and environmental preservation is determined by community resilience and leadership, the development of pro-disaster villages into tourism potential with a social, economic, cultural, and environmental safety net, the success of village institutions to encourage community change. This study concludes that disaster-prone villages in the mountainous region of Slamet can turn threats into potential benefits for rural communities. Therefore, the presence of disaster areas is needed not only for concepts but as an example of implementations that benefit local communities.

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Are cash-for-work programmes good for local economic growth? The case of donor-funded public works for refugees and nationals in Jordan

Loewe,

Zintl

2023

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'ét

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Safety nets as a means of tackling chronic food insecurity in rural southern Ethiopia: what is constraining programme contributions?

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Improving Food Policies for a Climate Insecure World: Evidence From Ethiopia

Improving Food Policies for a Climate Insecure World: Evidence From Ethiopia

A lesson learned from the success of disaster prone village transformation into a socioeconomic cultural safety net and environmental conservation

Are cash-for-work programmes good for local economic growth? The case of donor-funded public works for refugees and nationals in Jordan

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