AIDS and Rural Livelihoods

by Niehof, Anke; Rugalema, Gabriel; Gillespie, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9781849711265
• ISBN10: 1849711267
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-30
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

HIV and AIDS continue to devastate the livelihoods of millions of Africans and represent the major public health challenge in many countries. More people die of AIDS each day than from wars, famine and floods combined, while an orphaned generation of children must be provided for. Yet despite millions of dollars of aid and research, there has previously been little detailed on-the-ground analysis of the long-term impact on rural people. This book fills this gap in knowledge by bringing together recent evidence on HIV/AIDS impacts on rural households, livelihoods, and agricultural practice in sub-Saharan Africa. There is particular emphasis on the role of women in affected households. The book is unique in presenting micro-level information collected by original empirical research in a range of African countries, and showing how well-grounded conclusions on trends and major problems can then be addressed by policies. It is shown that HIV/AIDS impacts are more diverse than we know (and not always negative) on the basis of cumulative evidence so far. The book represents a major contribution to our understanding of the impacts of HIV/AIDS and how these can be managed

Author Biography

Anke Niehof is a full professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, holding the chair of Sociology of Consumers and Households. Gabriel Rugalema is a Senior Officer in the Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division of FAO, Rome. Stuart Gillespie is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), director of the Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL) and coordinator of the Agriculture and Health Research Platform (AHRP).

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface and acknowledgements	p. xi
AIDS in Africa: dynamics and diversity of impacts and response	p. 1
The longitudinal picture: What does it reveal?	p. 13
Resilience and (dis)continuity in households afflicted by AIDS: Some preliminary insights from a longitudinal case study analysis	p. 29
Impacts of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on non-urban households in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	p. 43
Sweet cane, bitter realities: The complex realities of AIDS in Mkamba, Kilombero District, Tanzania	p. 61
Single women's experiences of livelihood conditions, HIV and AIDS in the rural areas of Zimbabwe	p. 77
Regional agricultural-consumption regimes and women's vulnerability to HIV in Kenya	p. 95
Multilayered impacts of AIDS and implications for food security among banana farmers in Uganda	p. 117
Impact of HIV/AIDS on local farming knowledge: differences in the cognitive salience of maize crop pests between affected and non-affected adults and children in Benin	p. 133
Adult mortality, food security and the use of wild natural resources in a rural district of South Africa: Exploring the environmental dimensions of AIDS	p. 153
Applying the Farmer Life School approach to support women of poor and HIV/AIDS-affected households in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	p. 171
Agricultural policy response to HIV and AIDS: Lessons learned from East and Southern Africa	p. 191
AIDS and livelihoods: What have we learned and where are we heading?	p. 209
Index	p. 227
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