The workshop sought to draw lessons from those programs that can be applied to the Anemia Cero (Zero Anemia) initiative promoted by MIDIS in partnership with CIP, the World Food Program (WFP), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and local institutions in the Curgos District of Peru’s La Libertad region. In particular, some recent experiences in the Andean region of relevance to Peru were analyzed. The workshop provided participants with a panoramic, conceptual and operational vision of various programs around the world that link social protection policies with innovation interventions and economic development in agriculture. The event was part of ongoing collaboration between MIDIS and CIP’s Latin America Region and Social Sciences and Nutrition teams in Peru that is based on a philosophy that innovation in agriculture is fundamental for reducing hunger and poverty rates, and the most effective way to facilitate opportunities for creating income and improving nutrition in vulnerable populations. To contribute to these goals, the International Potato Center (CIP) and Peru’s Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS) organized a workshop on “Social protection programs and economic inclusion interventions in rural areas in Peru,” held on December 5. Achieving these reductions will require economic processes that link public policies for the protection of vulnerable populations, for social and economic inclusion in productive sectors, and to expand access to and the quality of basic services.

The Government of Peru has set the following goals for 2021: reduce monetary poverty (from 20.7% to 15%), extreme poverty (from 3.8% to 1.5%), rural poverty (from 43% to 37.9%), chronic malnutrition in children under 5 (from 13% to 6%) and anemia in children under 3 (from 43% to 19%).

Workshop addresses the relationship between social programs, agriculture and innovation CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas.

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