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Fig. 5.6: The impact path of targeted interventions on factors determining access to food


 Types of
 targeted
interventions





Targeted
 links of
food chain



 Expected
 outcome
 on factors
 determining
access to food


Expected final outcome


Adapted from: P. Webb, J.von Braun, Yisehac Yohannes, Famine in Ethiopia: Policy Implications of Coping
Failure at National and Household Levels, IFPRI, Washington 1992

The targeting approach is particularly appropriate where it is anticipated that macro-policy
changes will threaten the livelihoods and food security of specific population groups in the
short-run. Food transfers in particular will help protect vulnerable groups until they are in a
position to benefit from the improved economic opportunities that macroeconomic reform
could present. Where the impact of policy reform is expected to be negative in the long run,
asset distribution and production support may be a more appropriate form of intervention, in
as much as it has a longer term impact.

The specifics of various approaches are discussed in detail in the subsequent sections.

3.2 Targeted asset distribution and production support

Targeted asset distribution and production support measures can include all measures which
are mentioned in Table 5.1 above, with two conditions:

1) the measures address the specific constraints which agricultural producers belonging to
 vulnerable and food-insecure groups face;

2) the measures are effective in reaching the target groupss.


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