Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is a large-scale social protection intervention aimed at improving food security and stabilizing asset levels. The PSNP contains a mix of public works employment and unconditional transfers. It is a well-targeted program; however, several years...

The paper outlines the current Ethiopian policies that promote agrarian socialism and discriminate against smallholders, reviews the negative effects of agrarian socialism on food production since the revolution, and considers the smallholder strategy advocated by major western donors as an...