Abstract:Informal mutual and informal individual saving mechanisms have the potential to facilitate consumption smoothing thereby abridging transitory food insecurity and concomitantly household employment of negative consumption coping strategies. Notwithstanding, the potency of Informal mutual and informal individual saving mechanisms in alleviating transitory food insecurity, individual holding of such saving mechanisms is likely to be influenced by their preference of risk among other factors. This study examined t… Show more
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