Social protection has emerged rapidly as a key development and humanitarian policy issue in the last decade. At the
same time, there have been major food price shocks in many countries in the last 5 years. As a result, interest in
social protection and food systems is converging and many donor agencies and governments are looking at how
different social protection instruments might better support or enable the different components of food systems and
maintain their resilience in the face of major shocks and stresses. These summaries, based on a series of reports,
explore the impacts of different social protection instruments on resilient food systems and provide a set of key
messages for policy makers and programmers working on social protection and food security.