[Introduction ...] The purpose of this paper is to describe the methodology that will be used for the household-level analysis of economic and productive impacts under the PtoP project. We will first review the conceptual framework underlying our analysis, then delve into the analytical...

Cash transfer programmes have become an important tool of social protection and poverty reduction strategies in low- and middle-income countries. In the past decade, a growing number of African governments have launched cash transfer programmes as part of their strategies of social protection....

This paper reports the analysis of the impact of Kenya's Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Programme on the household decisions on productive activities using data from a randomised experimental design. Results show that the programme had a positive and significant impact on food...

This paper reports the analysis of the impact of Kenya’s Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Programme on the household decisions on productive activities using data from a randomised experimental design. Results show that the programme had a positive and significant impact on...

Although agriculture generates about 11 per cent of the GDP of the Philippines, it provides livelihoods for 30 per cent of the population (OECD, 2017). This share is higher in rural areas, where 70 per cent of the population is poor and depends on agriculture – primarily rice production. Rice...

Migration is increasingly making the headlines as a result of geopolitical drivers that have caused millions to migrate in the past decade. 1 The headlines mostly concern international migration from developing to developed regions, which seem to lack organized ways of dealing with the influx...

This introductory paper summarizes the policy context, methodological approach, and key results from the set of papers contained in this special edition derived from a FAO-led project on seed sourcing in local markets and its farm-level impacts. The introduction provides the conceptual framework...