Using food-for-work programmes

In food-for-work activities, food is used as an incentive or part-payment for beneficiaries who participate in various projects.

In certain World Food Programme (WFP) activities, villagers receive food rations in exchange for work as varied as: planting trees to reforest an eroded mountain-side; building a community library, making saleable crafts and building water cisterns.

1. Using performance-related incentives
2. Sustaining relief with development
3. Providing food aid
4. Improving work incentives
5. Creating complementary currencies

1. Using economic instruments for sustainable development
2. Providing incentives to undertake conservation measures
3. Providing incentives to economic development
4. Providing incentives for farming
5. Promoting development
6. Meeting biomass energy needs of the poor with re-afforestation

1. Managing food aid projects
2. Defining effective incentives

1. Paying for work

1. Unemployment
2. Malnutrition
3. Inappropriate employment incentives
4. Inappropriate design of development projects
5. Inadequate commercial finance for rural development projects
6. Denial of right to economic security during periods of unemployment
7. Corruption and mismanagement of foreign aid

1. Work
2. Overwork