Cash-based programmes

FAO’s cash-based programmes support smallholder farmers and other vulnerable men and women, who are particularly exposed to the impacts of climate change, natural hazards, economic shocks, conflict and protracted crises. Cash-based interventions include:

-      Cash transfers: when quality goods are available and local markets are functioning, conditional or unconditional cash transfers provide poor and vulnerable households with the income required to maintain a minimum standard of living.

-      Cash+: the provision of cash transfers to beneficiaries is complemented with productive assets and/or technical training.

-      Voucher programmes: beneficiaries receive vouchers that can be exchanged for goods and services (i.e. seeds, fertilizer, tools, animal feed, veterinary supplies and services, etc.) at selected shops.

-      Cash for work: within the framework of public work schemes (cash-, food- and voucher-for-work activities), beneficiaries are paid in exchange for unskilled labor to rehabilitate degraded lands and community infrastructures (e.g. rehabilitation of irrigation canals and water catchments, tree planting, land recuperation, etc.)

-      Input trade fairs: one-day temporary markets where farmers andherders can purchase agricultural inputs and services through the exchange of vouchers.

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