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Title: | From food aid to food security: the case of the Safety Net policy in Ethiopia |
Authors: | Bishop, Carly Hilhorst, Dorothea |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies (ISSN 0022-278X) |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 181-202 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | food security food aid development projects |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40864714 |
Abstract: | Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), launched in January 2005, is an attempt to bring food security to 5 million people by providing them with social security to close the yearly hunger gap, coupled with development projects to lift them permanently out of poverty. The programme is an example of the new policy arrangements that aim to link food aid to food security and development. This paper analyses the early implementation of the PSNP in two villages of the Amhara Region. It shows how the programme was in practice interpreted and used by local authorities to realize a related programme of voluntary resettlement, aimed to relocate people from the highlands to the lowlands, and how this locally changed the objective from helping the most vulnerable people to reserving the benefits of the programme for the more affluent and economically potent households. It shows how local responses to food security policies were informed by institutional patterns, discourses about food insecurity and the articulation of policy with adjacent or past policy practices. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |