hungry season
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Applying insights from psychology to help farmers plan and save for the future
A participant-centred planning intervention, that prompted farmers to think through all potential income and expenditures using categorisation and labelling, leads to smoother consumption across seasons, more savings and higher farm yields for Zambia...
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Seasonal liquidity, rural labour markets, and agricultural production
Loans allowed low-income households to reallocate labour away from the market and back onto their own farms, and thereby improve their own harvests