How a Focused Budgeting Activity Increased Savings across the Hungry Season in Zambia

This webinar, co-hosted by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience at UC Davis, and the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley, presents new research supported by USAID. This randomized controlled trial in Zambia found a way for smallholder farming families to reallocate their savings across the year, reducing hunger while setting themselves up for higher future yields. A simple, inexpensive budgeting intervention stretched farmers’ savings by roughly one extra month while increasing farm yields by 9 percent in the following year. The webinar will provide clear evidence of the impacts attained within the scope of this research project and describe the real development potential of this cost-effective program on household resilience.