Summary (English)

This project aims to facilitate debate among bilateral donors, multilateral agencies, policy-makers, farmers’ organisations and NGOs on synergies and conflicts in the design and implementation of social protection and smallholder policies in Africa, aiming at eradicating hunger and poverty and reaching the MDG goals: What synergies and conflicts exist, actually and potentially? Why it is important to maximise synergies and avoid conflicting incentives? How can this be done in practical terms? A second objective is to provide inputs to FAO in terms of the types of policies that can be promoted through national food security strategies and programmes.
The project has six substantive outputs: a conceptual paper, three country case study papers (Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi), this synthesis paper, and a workshop report, which will follow a meeting at FAO in Rome on 17-18 January 2008, at which the project outputs will be presented and issues arising will be discussed.