The negotiations also focused on whether food aid in kind shall be allowed or only food aid in cash.

On the other hand, food aid in kind has sometimes had an adverse impact on developing country agriculture.

In concrete terms, it provides persons seeking assistance with counselling, treatment, advice, aid in kind, and financial assistance.

- Provision of aid in kind (such as clothing, furniture and electrical appliances, provided free of charge or at low prices);

Discussions also took place on whether food aid in kind (in addition to food aid in cash) should be allowed.

In many situations, the provision of aid in kind was critical to save lives, and its withdrawal would have disastrous consequences.

When aid is in-kind, it can replace domestic production and reduce employment.

According to the requests received, food aid can consist either of intermediary products, which can relaunch agricultural production gradually decreasing dependence on food imports, or of aid in kind.

These programmes are typically used together with aid in kind, such as food aid, but go beyond the immediate consumption goals of commodity transfers and aim to enhance livelihoods and longer-term incomes.

In exceptional cases, it might benefit from a subvention or aid in kind for an international project (colloquium or training session, for example) from a State, the European Union, the United Nations, or a Christian organization.