During the From Protection to Production (PtoP) Regional Workshop “Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection” in Cape Town, November 2014, we sat down with Edmond Odaba (African Platform for Social Protection), Mary Nyamongo (African Institute for Health and Development), Manzunzu Zulu (Zambia’s Ministry of Community, Development, Mother and Child Health) and Stephen Devereux (Institute of Development Studies) to discuss the issues to be addressed when bringing together agriculture and social protection.