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Social Protection and Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth: What Scope for Synergies?

Briefing/policy papers

Written by John Farrington, Rachel Slater, Rebecca Holmes

Social protection (SP) and livelihood promotion have conventionally been handled by different departments within governments and donor organisations. Taking the example of agriculture, this paper argues that the scope for synergy between them (when narrowly defined as ‘making the whole bigger than the sum of its parts’) is limited. However, there is substantial unexploited scope for introducing the perspectives of the one into the design and implementation of the other, i.e. for giving aspects of SP more of a growth-promoting dimension, and for designing agriculture initiatives in ways aiming to reduce risk and vulnerability.

John Farrington, Rachel Slater and Rebecca Holmes