| Third Regular Session Rome 11-14 October 2004 Policy issues Agenda item 4 | |
| WFP and Food-based Safety Nets: concepts experiences and future programming opportunities WFP/EB.3/2004/4-A |
| Food-based safety nets represent a subset of safety-net programmes with the distinctive characteristic that they provide food to beneficiaries either directly (in-kind) or indirectly (through food stamps vouchers and coupons). Both cash and food-based programmes provide a transfer of income to increase recipients’ purchasing power but food-based programmes also have other objectives such as increasing household food consumption in order to address hunger and malnutrition or micronutrient deficiencies. Apart from the use of food as a resource these safety nets do not vary greatly from the general types of safety nets described above. In designing an intervention the comparative advantages of cash and food10 should be carefully analyzed on the basis of local conditions. |
Auteur: WFP's Executive Board
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Publisher: World Food Programme (WFP) Année: 2004
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| Mot clef: Policy , Stratégies Coordination . |
| Catégorie de document: Fiche politique | Langue: Anglais |