cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects … of these programs. This article considers one such program, the Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA), which purchases maize …

-market economic activity (in the form of small-scale farming), and improve the self-reported food security of rural households that … farm, vis-à-vis those that do not. However, only non-farming households increase market food expenditure and consume more … diverse diets from market-sourced foods: diet quality improves with greater spending, while food sufficiency remains …

, in case of catastrophic events food prices can potentially inflate with indemnity payments at the expense of the …

interest was being paid. It also increased agricultural investment in fertilizer, although there was no change in investment in … other complementary inputs that were not directly targeted by the intervention, unlike fertilizer.These results suggest that … fertilizer salience in the remunerated savings treatment may have been important to focus farmers' (limited) attention on saving …