The Impact of Cash Transfers on Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence, Design and Implementation

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Cash Transfers and Food Security in Sub‐Saharan Africa

“…A discussion of the importance of per-capita GDP for summarising a country's economic condition is omitted to save space. The positive relationship between female education and food security is well documented in the development literature (Kassouf and Senauer, 1996;Behrman and Wolfe, 1987;Burchi and De Muro, 2012); this literature shows that educated women ensure good nutritional outcomes for their families through their capability to make use of information about good health and nutritional practices.…”

“…The second dimension is access to food and other items: it is important to verify that people have access food through direct production or through purchase in the market; further, access to other goods and services, such as health services, medicines, drinkable water and sanitation, is fundamental for food security. The third dimension is food utilisation: knowledge about diet adequacy, cooking methods and other nutritional issues, correct hygiene and healthy practices play a key role in obtaining food security (Burchi and De Muro, 2016).…”

“…By reducing liquidity constraints, CTs can also ensure better access to health and sanitation services. These programmes cannot, on the other hand, directly affect the utilisation dimension: there is, indeed, no expected theoretical channel through which CTs can ensure better nutritional knowledge and practices (Burchi et al, 2016); they should, at the very least, be adequately integrated with other nutritional interventions (Burchi and Strupat, 2016).…”

“…According toGarcia and Moore (2012), the programme was targeted to reach about 42,000 households by 2012.7 For an extensive and comprehensive review of evidence of the effect of CT programmes on various aspects of food security in SSA, seeBurchi et al (2016).© 2018 Economic Society of South Africa . South African Journal of Economics Vol.…”

Implications of Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Programme on household dietary diversity and women’s body mass index: a cross-sectional study

“…Since 2016, the PSNP has been closely connected to the National Nutrition Programme and particularly the Community-Based Nutrition Programme, which focuses on nutrition education for mothers and supplementary food for children and mothers. In this regard, Ethiopia’s PSNP has a critical role in advancing and accelerating progress toward improved food and nutrition security mentioned under SDG 1 (5, 6).…”