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Can Maize Price Stabilization Reduce Malnutrition and Save Lives? The Case of the Zambia Food Reserve Agency

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  • Daye Kwon
  • Robert J. Myers
  • Nicole M. Mason

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Key Findings -Economic research has found that FRA policies in Zambia have stabilized maize prices around higher average levels, benefiting large surplus maize producers, imposing costs on poor maize deficit households, and imposing substantial costs on the Zambian treasury. However, maize price fluctuations may have additional effects besides those taken into account in the traditional price stabilization welfare analysis framework—effects on malnutrition and on the survival probability of the poor. --We currently know very little about these malnutrition and survival probability effects. -We highlight the need to include these malnutrition and survival probability effects into the policy analysis framework and suggest some way to begin this task.

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  • Daye Kwon & Robert J. Myers & Nicole M. Mason, 2019. "Can Maize Price Stabilization Reduce Malnutrition and Save Lives? The Case of the Zambia Food Reserve Agency," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs 303622, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:miffpb:303622
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.303622
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