food security is mentioned only once although protecting people in the rural sector is acknowledged for example the need to protect households against crop failure but these connections in formal documentation at least are implicit rather than explicit the focus is on social transfers communitybased insurance and school feeding programmes some operations do make transfers to food insecure people though the links to food security are not made explicitly in programming operations are at a different level for example tl improve the fiscal legal and institutional frameworks and coherent design of comprehensive social protection programmes