Social Protection and Employment in Africa’s Agricultural Sector

Osabohien, Romanus; Onanuga, Olaronke; Aderounmu, Busayo; Matthew, Oluwatoyin; Osabuohien, Evans

doi:10.3846/btp.2020.11945

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“…The article studies the migration phenomenon and its linkages on fiscal revenues and budget expenditures with social benefits (Cristea et al, 2019;Levchenko et al, 2017;Didenko et al, 2020b). The research (Osabohien et al, 2020;Rajan, 2018;Shammi et al, 2020) showed that social protection positively affects employers' health and work outcomes through various channels, namely, building human resources and equity, the use of public resources, social inclusion. In their study, authors (Sasongko et al, 2019; implemented the Granger Causality test and Vector Autoregression to define the causality between inflation and unemployment.…”

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Why do regions differ in vulnerability to СOVID-19? Spatial nonlinear modeling of social and economic patterns

Kuzmenko¹,

Vasylieva²,

Vojtovič³

et al. 2020

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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Certain groups of determinants (economic, environmental, social, healthcare) with the highest vulnerability identify the reasons for regional differentiation in morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. This defines the necessity to find appropriate combinations of factors characterizing the vulnerability of a region. The methodology and tools to explain the regional specifics of population vulnerability to COVID-19 are investigated through a systematic consideration of many public health factors, environmental, social and economic specific nature of regions. The aim of the article is to study the reasons for regional differentiation of population vulnerability (morbidity and mortality rates) from COVID-19. The authors investigate a nonlinear spatial model in which the stepwise algorithm of individual factor variables is added/removed from the model specifications step by step by the Aitken method depending on their correlation with morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in the region. The Farrar-Glober method is used to eliminate the multicollinearity of factors, the Spearman test is used to detect the heteroskedastic effect, and the Darbin-Watson test is used to check the presence of autocorrelation between the residues. As a result, the specification of the model with the highest adequacy in terms of p-value and tstatistics is formed. Relevant socioecological-economic vulnerability indices of regions to mortality and morbidity from COVID-19 are identified. The obtained results allow making adjustments in the state and regional programs concerning the mobilization of economic and healthcare systems.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Why do regions differ in vulnerability to СOVID-19? Spatial nonlinear modeling of social and economic patterns

Kuzmenko¹,

Vasylieva²,

Vojtovič³

et al. 2020

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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“…Social protection can contribute to poverty reduction, empower marginalised people and be socially transformative (Devereux & Sabates-Wheeler, 2004). Social protection mechanisms such as social insurance and labour market measures allow workers to make investments and upgrade their skills because they have confidence derived from secure income and employment that eventually increases their productivity (Estevez-Abe, Iversen, & Soskice, 2001; Osabohien et al, 2020). In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments can use existing social protection programmes to identify and assist vulnerable groups who are otherwise harder to reach (Gerard, Imbert, & Orkin, 2020).…”

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Comparing formal and informal social protection: a case study exploring the usefulness of informal social protection in Pakistan

Mumtaz

Whiteford

2021

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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In most global south countries, various informal institutions provide welfare to a large segment of the neglected, poor and vulnerable populations through informal social protection. Despite being a major source of welfare in the global south, the usefulness of informal social protection at the household level remains an under-researched area. In this exploratory study, we have determined the usefulness of informal social protection provided through religious institutions, such as madrassas and compared it with formal social protection at the household level utilising the case study of a lower-income country such as Pakistan. A mixed methodology of data collection comprising a survey and semi-structured interviews in 14 different cities of Pakistan of the poor and eligible households for receiving formal social protection was conducted for the research. The results suggest the coverage of informal social protection provided by madrassas is greater than formal social protection. The poor and vulnerable population value and considers it more useful than formal social protection. We conclude that integrating informal and formal social protection would help improve the effectiveness of social policies in developing and less developed countries.

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“…Food security simply means a situation where all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for active and healthy life [9]. Food security goes beyond availability; it includes the ability to possess monetary and non-monetary resources by the population to gain access to adequate quantities and qualities of food [10], [11]. One of the major ways to ensure food security is to engage in agriculture, this will help sustain and increase agricultural production that will feed the teeming population [12].…”

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Enabling Environment and Agriculture in ECOWAS: Implications for Food Security

Osabohien

Olurinola

Matthew

et al. 2021

Wseas Transactions on Environment and Development

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This study examined how enabling environment (proxied by political stability and absence of violence) affect agricultural production and food security in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region. The essence of this study is to ensure that a conducive enabling environment is put in place to boost agriculture, so as to ensure food security in ECOWAS sub-region. The study employed the fixed and random effects econometric method on the data sourced from the World Development Indicators (WDI) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) for the period 2000 to 2018. The findings from the study showed that, when there is an enabling environment for farming, agriculture production increased by 1%, while food security increased by about 3%.These findings imply that proper policies and programmes should be put in place towards ensuring an enabling environment for agricultural activities which will increase production and food security within the ECOWAS sub-region.

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Social Protection and Employment in Africa’s Agricultural Sector

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

Why do regions differ in vulnerability to СOVID-19? Spatial nonlinear modeling of social and economic patterns

Why do regions differ in vulnerability to СOVID-19? Spatial nonlinear modeling of social and economic patterns

Comparing formal and informal social protection: a case study exploring the usefulness of informal social protection in Pakistan

Enabling Environment and Agriculture in ECOWAS: Implications for Food Security

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