In part 3, there are elaborated consensus that women play a pivotal role in the agricultural production of developing economies and support food and nutrition security and well-being of families and countries.
I propose that the section gives guidelines and strengthens the call for collaboration or a combination of agriculture and social protection programs. Evidence suggests that coordination of the two policy areas yields synergies for the poor and vulnerable households/individuals benefiting from the two sectors.
Social protection provides basic services, relieves immediate needs and deprivations and build productive assets that can increase agricultural production while agricultural interventions address the structural constraints that limit poor households’ access to land and water resources, financial services, advisory services, and input and output markets. Ultimately, budgetary constraints are reduced through coherent programming and delivery e.g. targeting, mobilisation etc. and there is a reduction in discrimination of potential beneficiaries based on time, resources and skills to participate/graduate successfully.
The CFS may leverage on the existing global policy calls or regional declarations such as the 39th Session of the CFS that urged member states to strengthen sector collaboration between agriculture and social protection (CFS 2012/39/2, 2012); the 2003 Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods.
Mr. John Mugonya