Addise Amado, Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology (EGST). Swedish World Food Day celebrations and the Celebration FAO 70 years on the theme of “Social Protection and Agriculture: Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty”. Surviving Shocks and Enhanced Food Security in Ethiopia: The Role of Social Protection
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Addise Amado, Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology
(EGST). Swedish World Food Day celebrations and
the Celebration FAO 70 years on the theme of “Social Protection and Agriculture: Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty”.
Surviving Shocks and Enhanced Food Security in Ethiopia: The Role of Social Protection
State of food insecurity in EthiopiaIn 2011:
34% of rural population below national food poverty line
44% of children under age of five were moderately or severely stunted, reflecting chronic malnutrition
The average food gap – the period in the year when households reported being unable to feed themselves – was 3 months
Estimates of current annual economic costs of under- nutrition at 55.5 billion birr (£1.85bn), or 16.5% of GDP (UNICEF 2013)
For many, poor rains or adverse price movements threaten their ability to grow enough to feed themselves and / or earn income to buy food (Dorosh and Rashid 2012; Rahmato et al 2013).
Household responses to food insecurity
Risk minimization – crop and herd dispersal, non-farm income diversification, asset and other savings accumulation
Risk absorption – sale of livestock and non-productive assets, search for new sources of income, collection of debts
Risk taking to survive – reduced consumption, sale of productive assets, reduced socialization
In response to the 2002 drought, the Government of Ethiopia revised its Food Security Strategy (FSS)
Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) :
Cash transfers and Food for Work (FFW) program
Components and stages of transition:Emergency RELIEF Rehabilitation Development
The evolution of social protection in Ethiopia
Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)
PSNP has three distinctive objectives:smoothing food consumption in chronically food insecure smallholder households, by transferring food or cash to buy food during the ‘hunger gap’ months;
protecting household assets by avoiding damaging ‘coping strategies’ such as selling productive assets or taking on high‑interest loans to buy food;
building community assets by selecting public works activities that create infrastructure with developmental potential (eg feeder roads).