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Moving from Emergency Food Aid to Predictable Cash Transfers: Recent Experience in Ethiopia
Author(s) -
Kebede Emebet
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2006.00349.x
Subject(s) - livelihood , food aid , cash transfers , cash , food security , business , safety net , social protection , economic growth , development economics , economics , agricultural economics , geography , finance , agriculture , medicine , environmental health , archaeology
Changes in the way hunger is tackled in Ethiopia have significant implications for its estimated 8.8 million chronically and acutely food‐insecure people. This article compares findings from the new Productive Safety‐Net Programme (PSNP) in two districts where Save the Children‐UK is a PSNP implementing partner or has its own cash‐based livelihood‐development programme. Evidence from the first year suggests that shifting from food to cash transfer programmes has implications for targeting and for the availability and price of food in local markets, especially in remote, deficit areas, and therefore requires a range of complementary measures, if the programmes are to be successful.