Zambia's Food Reserve Agency, having purchased grain at more than three times its mandated target, now holds the largest maize stockpile in the nation's history — a record that speaks equally to agricultural abundance and fiscal fragility. The same harvest that shields citizens from drought-driven hunger carries a price tag exceeding twice the IMF's projection for the country's entire annual agricultural subsidy bill. In the space between food security and financial solvency, Zambia must now find buyers, negotiate prices, and move 3.1 million tons of grain before the rains return and the arith