wahenga.net promotes awareness and advocacy on social transfer and social protection in southern Africa. Our aim is to increase understanding of social protection issues within six focus countries - Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The impact of providing the poor and vulnerable with regular pensions or grants – as opposed to food aid, a voucher, or agricultural subsidies – may not be dramatic immediately, but is far-reaching in the long-term. This paper provides evidence for the impacts of income grants at different levels (from the individual beneficiary, through the household and community, to national level), drawing on findings from the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme’s (RHVP) regional evidence-building agenda (REBA) in southern Africa, as well as from elsewhere in Africa.
Rising food prices present a very real threat to ongoing efforts to combat poverty and hunger in southern Africa, but that is not necessarily the full…
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