HIV/AIDS And Agriculture In Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact on Farming Systems, Agricultural Practices and Rural Livelilhoods- An Overview and Annotated ... Leaders in Agriculture and the Environment)

104 Pages·2004·4.35 MB·English

by  Tanja R. Muller

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AWLAE SERIES No. 1
Tanja R. Müller
HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

HIV/AIDS and agriculture
in sub-Saharan Africa
Impact on farming systems, agricultural
practices and rural livelihoods –
An overview and annotated bibliography
AWLAE SERIES No. 1
Tanja R. Müller
Wageningen University
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Abstract
This publication is the first in a three part series looking at HIV/AIDS
and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, with the overall objective of
providing a resource base on the most crucial issues to consider when
looking at rural development in sub-Saharan Africa in a broad sense
in the times of HIV/AIDS. It describes the impact of the epidemic as
it has emerged over the last decades at different levels of the
agricultural sector, namely the farming system level, the livelihood
level, and the household level. In a further step, less well researched
impacts on the agricultural estate sector as well as pastoralism are
discussed. One overarching issue that emerges is the importance of
gender attributes to adequately understand and address HIV/AIDS
impact on agricultural production systems in general and household
food security in particular - the topic at the centre of the second part
of the series. The text ends with a discussion of HIV/AIDS in relation
to other shocks that befall rural livelihoods and a call for more holistic
research approaches that integrate famine and other disaster literatures
with HIV/AIDS impact studies. It is followed by an annotated
bibliography.
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Table of contents
Abstract 7
Preface 11
List of acronyms 15
Key concepts 17
Part 1 – Overview 19
1. Introduction 21
2. HIV/AIDS impact on agricultural production systems 27
3. HIV/AIDS impact on rural livelihoods 31
4. HIV/AIDS impact at rural household level 33
5. HIV/AIDS impact on the agricultural estate sector 39
6. HIV/AIDS impact on pastoralism 43
7. The impact of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods -
the evidence so far 45
8. Gender as the decisive factor 49
9. HIV/AIDS and other livelihood shocks 55
10. Some concluding remarks 57
Part 2 – Annotated bibliography 59
1. HIV/AIDS and agriculture 61
2. HIV/AIDS and broader development issues 91
3. Other readings 99
4. World Wide Web resources on HIV/AIDS and agriculture
in sub-Saharan Africa 101
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