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Community Contingency Funds

Year of publication 2016

Pages 7p.

Author FAO regional office for Latin America

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) CCFs are a risk protection and financial transfer mechanism that provide a form of agriculture risk insurance for those vulnerable households who do not have access to conventional financing systems. The CCFs resources are managed by producers’ associations with the purpose of funding income-generating activities and providing assistance to its members in case of unexpected extreme events, such as drought, hurricanes, floods, or other extreme events. This booklet describes the functioning of th e CCFs and the activities carried out under the Belgium-funded project OSRO/RLA/304/BEL “An integrative community disaster preparedness for sustainable resilient development of small farmers’ associations in climate related risk areas of Honduras and Guatemala”, for which NRC was LTU.

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