The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence commissioned the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), based in South Africa, to analyze the cases of Ethiopia, the Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Zambia and launched a new publication that gathers five papers about social protection in those African countries. Called ¡°Case studies on social protection and food and nutrition security¡±, the publication promotes knowledge sharing and diffusion of a wide range of tested policies and experiences on how social protection initiatives can contribute to increasing food and nutrition security. From a holistic and systems approach, the case studies have found evidence that cash transfers, home-grown school feeding programmes and input subsidies, amongst other programmes, improved access, availability, stability, and utilization of food for these countries.