Targeting social protection and agricultural interventions: The potential for synergies

Cirillo, Cristina; Gyori, Mario; Soares, Fábio Veras

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2016.08.006

Cited by 18 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 4 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Small farms need appropriate international collaboration and the sharing of experiences in different regions of the world. Since Innovations and interventions [48] can have different consequences, improving food security needs an adequate (technical, social and economic) innovation [49][50][51] in farms.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Evaluation of Small Farms: Implication for an Analysis of Food Security

2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Farm structure is a multi-dimensional concept that can be measured through different criteria. Meanwhile, farm structure has been identified to discern small farms or well-endowed farms from the other farms. Distinguishing and identifying these two groups have practical implications for understanding the dynamics in rural areas and the effectiveness of target measures in these categories. The existing literature lacks a better definition of small farms based on the different criteria used. In this paper, we have developed composite indicators to apply to the concept of farm structure to re-define small farms and discover their role in achieving food security in Europe. By clustering countries using the composite indicator of farm structure, we estimate that more than 80 percent of food across Europe is produced by multi-criteria small and medium farms, but the partial productivities of agricultural land and labor in these countries that have the majority of multi-criteria small and medium farms are much lower than the large ones. Then, an estimate of a spatial econometric regression model was done to recognize how farm structure, a representative of farm size, can affect food availability, which is representative of food security. The results show that improving the structure of farms in a country not only improves its food security but also improves its neighbors’ food security. Hence, improving the structure of multi-criteria small farms is a major part of the solution to improve and achieve food security. Recognizing and understanding the diversity of multi-criteria small farms by considering the specific products and countries is necessary for designing appropriate innovations and policies for supporting more productive multi-criteria small farms.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Evaluation of Small Farms: Implication for an Analysis of Food Security

2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Staatz (2009) [3], D. Dawe and P. Timmer (2012) [4], J. Wilkinson (2015) [5], N. Tirivayi, M. Knowles and B. Davis (2016) [6], H. Cirillo, M. Györi and F. Soares (2017) [7], M. Stavropoulou, R. Holmes and N. Jones (2017) [8], O. V. Shubravska [9] and others. However, despite the considerable scientific research, the relevant issues are far from being resolved.…”

Section: Brief Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affordability of food as a key condition of food security of households

Мудрак¹,

Tsymbalyuk²,

Фицик³

et al. 2018

EA-XXI

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Introduction. An analysis of available statistical information gives grounds to assert that the right of a significant number of Ukrainian citizens to adequate and affordable food is systematically violated. We mean those people who are in the state of constant food insecurity due to excessive costs required to purchase food. The problem of food security of the population, and thus food safety, has deep social background. Food insecurity, viewed as a lack of food safety, is inextricably linked with another equally pressing problem which is poverty. The purpose of the research is to find evidence that excessive costs that Ukrainian households spend on purchasing food (objectively as well as in comparison with the other countries) is an obvious sign that they are in a state of food insecurity and to conduct a critical analysis of the official boundary value indicator of affordability of food as a key condition of food security of Ukraine. Results and Conclusion. Poverty is the root cause of malnutrition and hunger. According to the methodology developed by the United Nations, about 78% of the population in Ukraine was below the line of poverty in the second half of 2016. The poverty of the Ukrainian population automatically generates the problem of food affordability: the value of the affordability of products indicator did not fall below 50% in the period from 1999 to 2016 (except for 2008). The 60% regulatory limit of the value of the affordability of products indicator is unreasonably high. This is confirmed by the comparative analysis of the practical experience of food security of the population and the methodology for determining the threshold of food affordability in other countries and international organisations.

show abstract

“…The management and administrative oversight of the programmes have been weak and sometimes problematic, perhaps because of multiple authorities (federal, state and local government agencies) managing the programmes (World Bank, 2008). Cirillo et al (2017) in their study using the difference-indifference (DiD) approach pointed that in Brazil, the effective implementation of social protection programmes on agricultural sector serves as interventions, particularly for the youths and family farmers, these agricultural interventions reduced the vulnerabilities of poor households, thereby directly contributing to the main objective of creating employment for youths.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Ethiopia, conscious efforts were made in order to create synergies on household and the local economy levels between the country's main social protection initiative, the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) and a major agricultural development initiative, the 'Other Food Security Programme (OFSP)' to stir agricultural productivity and generate employment for the youth (Cirillo et al, 2017). The PSNP is a social protection Programme which provides cash or food-based public work programmes to food insecure households with able-bodied members, or cash transfers for food insecure households without able-bodied members (Cirillo et al, 2017).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The idea of linking social protection programmes to agriculture in stimulating youth participation in the agricultural sector and support rural households in breaking out of the cycle of poverty and the intergenerational transmission mechanism it is one of the areas that have not been looked into in Nigeria (Osabohien and Osuagwu, 2017). Both agricultural interventions and social protection programmes are needed for combating hunger and poverty among poor small-scale farmers and stimulating youth employment (Cirillo et al, 2017). Yet, the coordination between these two is generally limited in Nigeria as the active youth, most of whom are employed in the agriculture and informal sectors, make larger proportion of the total population in Nigeria (Adesugba and Mavrotas, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Untitled

2018

International Journal of Business, Economics and Management

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Article HistoryIn this article the Chinese and Iranian SMEs features have been investigated and briefly pointed out some common features and differences. Comparable table has been developed. It is also mentioned that how the Chinese entities started the low price strategies to capture the foreign markets. It has been discussed that how SMEs of China could overcome the challenges and barriers they have encountered. But recently Chinese companies have lot of advantages to go to the market with low price strategy due the elements which influences their cost to be low is getting expensive. On the other side, SMEs of Iran are more risk taker and also interested to be more active in international markets. But due to the lack of interest to develop their initial relationship with overseas companies, political risks, sanctions, lack of banking and finance support of government, fluctuation of exchange rate occurs. So they are not so successful in entering the foreign markets despite of their suitable capacities and possibilities. Chinese SMEs are more cautious and playing a role in stable economic and political environment and having also better access to the market intelligence, fund and wide range of business services render by different providers. By studying the feature of SMEs in both countries we will have a better study on similarity and differences and we will find out the effect of any specific feature in business cooperation of two sides. It could be also helpful how to identify and recognize the ways and methods to make SMEs of two countries to be closer to each other and maintain the stable economic and commercial ties between two nations. Contribution/Originality: This paper has been studied for a practical orientation results which enable managers of SMEs from both countries to get familiarity with features and specialty of the other side in order to maintain the best possible ways and approach to be closer and start their collaboration.

show abstract

Targeting social protection and agricultural interventions: The potential for synergies

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

New Evaluation of Small Farms: Implication for an Analysis of Food Security

New Evaluation of Small Farms: Implication for an Analysis of Food Security

Affordability of food as a key condition of food security of households

Untitled

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About