Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked, lower-middle-income country in Central Asia with a population of 7 million. Between 2012 and 2019 the level of poverty declined significantly, but poverty rates in rural areas remained higher than in urban areas, with healthy diets unaffordable for 48 percent of the rural population and a stunting prevalence of 11.8 percent in 2018. Economic constraints in affording healthy diets continue to hinder the country’s efforts to address undernutrition, obesity and micronutrient deficiency, including the rising number of adults and children overweight. Against this background, FAO sought to improve the livelihoods, productive capacities, and food and nutrition security of poor and vulnerable households. This promising practice factsheet documents the intervention implemented in Kyrgyzstan from late 2017 to the end of 2018, with selected beneficiaries among households benefiting from the country’s main social assistance programme for low-income families. The government sought FAO’s support to strengthen the impact of the programme and explore more effective pathways out of poverty for population at risk of poverty. As such, the cash+ intervention aimed to support livelihoods enhancement and agricultural productive capacities of beneficiaries while improving their knowledge of nutrition. To do so, FAO complemented cash transfers with the provision of agricultural inputs, assets and training on water saving technologies, integrated pest management, basic home food processing and climate-smart agriculture practices.