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This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work (FFW) program in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people. It shows how design faults, administrative mismanagement and local politics created conditions that were conducive to the large-scale misappropriation of resources meant for the poor. It draws upon 12 months of primary field research conducted in 2001 and 2002 and documents the processes that led to the diversion of rice and the exclusion of very poor and lower-caste people in six villages in Andhra Pradesh.