The impact of the Social Cash Transfer Scheme on food security in Malawi

Miller, Christine; Tsoka, Maxton; Reichert, Kathryn

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.11.020

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“…In addition, dummy variables were included for having at least one member of the family with social security, having at least one member enrolled into the social health insurance, receiving cash grants from Oportunidades, enrolment in a cash assistance programme for the elderly called 70 y Más (37) , remittances receipt and if the household reported any agricultural self-consumption (i.e. whether the household reported consumption of a positive value of its agricultural production) (38) .…”

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The impact of the 2008 financial crisis on food security and food expenditures in Mexico: a disproportionate effect on the vulnerable

Vilar‐Compte

Sandoval-Olascoaga

Bernal-Stuart

et al. 2014

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective The present paper investigated the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on food security in Mexico and how it disproportionally affected vulnerable households. Design A generalized ordered logistic regression was estimated to assess the impact of the crisis on households’ food security status. An ordinary least squares and a quantile regression were estimated to evaluate the effect of the financial crisis on a continuous proxy measure of food security defined as the share of a household’s current income devoted to food expenditures. Setting Both analyses were performed using pooled cross-sectional data from the Mexican National Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2008 and 2010. Subjects The analytical sample included 29 468 households in 2008 and 27 654 in 2010. Results The generalized ordered logistic model showed that the financial crisis significantly (P < 0·05) decreased the probability of being food secure, mildly or moderately food insecure, compared with being severely food insecure (OR = 0·74). A similar but smaller effect was found when comparing severely and moderately food-insecure households with mildly food-insecure and food-secure households (OR = 0·81). The ordinary least squares model showed that the crisis significantly (P < 0·05) increased the share of total income spent on food (β coefficient of 0·02). The quantile regression confirmed the findings suggested by the generalized ordered logistic model, showing that the effects of the crisis were more profound among poorer households. Conclusions The results suggest that households that were more vulnerable before the financial crisis saw a worsened effect in terms of food insecurity with the crisis. Findings were consistent with both measures of food security – one based on self-reported experience and the other based on food spending.

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The impact of the 2008 financial crisis on food security and food expenditures in Mexico: a disproportionate effect on the vulnerable

Vilar‐Compte

Sandoval-Olascoaga

Bernal-Stuart

et al. 2014

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Sources: a Case, Hosegood, and Lund (2005), KwaZulu-Natal, Umkhanyakude District; b Samson et al (2004), National, Income and Expenditure Survey (2000) and The Labour Force Survey (September 2000); c Samson et al (2004), National, OHS data; d MCDSS/GTZ (2006), Kalomo District; e Miller, Tsoka, and Reichert (2008), Mchinji District. ∗ p <0.10, ∗∗ p <0.05, ∗∗∗ p <0.01. § p-Values not reported.…”

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Social protection to support vulnerable children and families: the potential of cash transfers to protect education, health and nutrition

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Investing in social protection in sub-Saharan Africa has taken on a new urgency as HIVand AIDS interact with other drivers of poverty to simultaneously destabilise livelihoods systems and family and community safety nets. Cash transfer programmes already reach millions of people in South Africa, and in other countries in southern and East Africa plans are underway to reach tens and eventually hundreds of thousands more. Cash transfers worldwide have demonstrated large impacts on the education, health and nutrition of children. While the strongest evidence is from conditional cash transfer evaluations in Latin America and Asia, important results are emerging in the newer African programmes. Cash transfers can be implemented in conjunction with other services involving education, health, nutrition, social welfare and others, including those related to HIV and AIDS. HIV/ AIDS-affected families are diverse with respect to household structure, ability to work and access to assets, arguing for a mix of approaches, including food assistance and income-generation programmes. However, cash transfers appear to offer the best strategy for scaling up to a national system of social protection, by reaching families who are the most capacity constrained, in large numbers, relatively quickly. These are important considerations for communities hard-hit by HIV and AIDS, given the extent and nature of deprivation, the long-term risk to human capital and the current political willingness to act.

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“…Black et al, 2008), Africa and Zambia were found to have a sizeable impact on food expenditures and consumption (Coetzee, 2013;Merttens et al, 2013;Miller et al, 2011;Seidenfeld et al, 2014).…”

Section: Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfersmentioning

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“…Fernald et al (2008b) in fact demonstrate that a conditional cash transfer programme in Mexico led to a reduction of the prevalence of childhood overweight. Perhaps more importantly, though several studies (Fernald et al, 2009, Fernald andHidrobo, 2011;Paxson and Schady, 2011;Hoddinott, 2010) fail to demonstrate a significant treatment effect, some of the available evidence for Latin America points to improvements in growth in height, height-for-age, especially for the poorest and youngest children (Attanasio et al, 2005;Rivera, 2004;Gertler, 2004;Behrman and Hoddinott, 2005 (Himaz, 2008;Ferré and Sharif, 2014) and height (Miller, 2010;Aguëro et al, 2007;Coetzee, 2013;Duflo, 2000;Himaz, 2008).…”

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Evolution and Impact of EU Aid for Food and Nutrition Security: A Review

Cockx

Francken

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn the aftermath of the world food price crisis, the issue of food and nutrition security has received a high level of political attention and the international donor community has repeatedly underlined its commitment to combat hunger in the world. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the international community's efforts in addressing the widespread problem of malnutrition, we need to improve our knowledge on what activities donors are currently engaging in and which interventions have been shown to be successful. This paper offers both an overview of the aid for food and nutrition security landscape and how it has changed and an extensive review of the available evidence on the impact of a wide array of interventions aimed at addressing all four dimensions of food and nutrition security; availability, access, utilization and stability. We find that despite the renewed interest and elevated levels of funding for food and nutrition security assistance in developing countries, the empirical evidence base for the effectiveness of these interventions in improving beneficiaries' food and nutrition security -although in several cases promising -is weak. In particular, the question whether different interventions improve the quality of food consumption and consequently nutrient intake and status, remains largely unanswered. Moreover, few studies assess longer-term effects and there exists relatively little rigorous evidence that compares different interventions. It is therefore strongly recommended to undertake additional research to improve the evidence base as this would allow researchers and policy makers to establish the type of approaches that improve food and nutrition security in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Finally, in order to facilitate this process, there is a need for a clear and uniform definition of food and nutrition security assistance on the one hand as well as agreed upon, comprehensive indicators on the other hand.JEL Codes F35, F53, I380, O12, O13, O15.

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The impact of the Social Cash Transfer Scheme on food security in Malawi

Cited by 141 publications

References 9 publications

The impact of the 2008 financial crisis on food security and food expenditures in Mexico: a disproportionate effect on the vulnerable

The impact of the 2008 financial crisis on food security and food expenditures in Mexico: a disproportionate effect on the vulnerable

Social protection to support vulnerable children and families: the potential of cash transfers to protect education, health and nutrition

Evolution and Impact of EU Aid for Food and Nutrition Security: A Review

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