Cash transfer programs including the World Food Program (WFP) effort for Mozambique provide unconditional cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households. Research suggests that these programs have significant climate resilience benefits and that households receiving cash transfers suffered much less from weather shocks, their food security increased, and poorest households saw the biggest gains. These programs are especially critical in countries with a high proportion of the labor force in the agriculture sector.
\nMozambique suffered from severe droughts in 2015-16, which negatively impacted agricultural yields in 2017-18. Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in 2019 exacerbated the crisis faced by farmers, leaving nearly 3% of the population at risk of severe food insecurity. In response to these crises, WFP, with funding from DFID, developed a program to supply the affected population with either cash or food vouchers to allow them to obtain food for themselves and their households.<\/p>\n