Cash Transfers Enable Households to Cope with Agricultural Production and Price Shocks: Evidence from Zambia
研究考察无条件现金转移能否帮助赞比亚农村家庭应对农业生产和价格冲击，发现现金使贫困家庭能采用非贫困家庭的应对策略，显著提升食物消费和粮食安全。
Climate change is projected to dramatically disrupt rainfall patterns and agricultural yields in Sub-Saharan Africa. These shocks to food production can mire farming households in poverty traps. This study investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can help households cope with agricultural production and price shocks. We find that cash empowers poor, rural households facing these negative shocks to employ coping strategies typically used by the non-poor and enables them to substantially increase their food consumption and overall food security. Extending relatively small cash payments unconditionally to the rural poor is a powerful policy option for fostering climate-resilient development.