Abstract:
Community cereal banking is one possible strategy to help farming communities buffer
production and prices shocks, as well as seasonal variations in their access to food. Based on a
Randomised Control Trial (the Community Driven Development Project) in The Gambia, we use
Propensity Score Matching (PSM) to analyse the determinants of the communities choice of
cereal banking as development project and assess the treatment effect on food and nutrition
security outcomes. We find that cereal banking substantially reduces inter-seasonal food price
variability at the community level, improves household's food and nutrition security, but has less
impact on their wealth accumulation. |
