 SAGE4Health Sample 2: Random sample community survey with a cohort sequential design. Objective: check the possible threats i.e., other external factors such as Malawis national fertilizer and seed programs that were introduced in the same period as the intervention to the internal validity of the interventionevaluation by examining whether the intervention effects were the results of something plausible during the study period, in the larger communities where the intervention was delivered. Sample: 500 randomly selected villages in SAFE TAs that were not direct participants in the SAFE program; 500 control TAs, where the SAFE program had not been implemented. Quantitative data was collected in three waves: Baseline during year 2009, 18-month, and 36-month follow up. 