The most food-insecure people often live in fragile
and degraded landscapes and areas prone to
recurrent natural shocks and other risks.
Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) is one of WFP’s
flagship initiatives aimed at addressing the most
food-insecure people’s immediate food needs with
cash, vouchers or food transfers and improving their
long-term food security and resilience.
The concept is simple: people receive cash or foodbased
transfers to address their immediate food
needs, while they build or boost assets, such as
constructing a road or rehabilitating degraded land,
that will improve their livelihoods by creating
healthier natural environments, reducing risks and
impact of shocks, increasing food productivity, and
strengthening resilience to natural disasters.