The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Rural Households and Land Issues in Southern and Eastern Africa A Background Paper prepared for the Food and Agricultural Organization, Sub-Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa August 2002

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Rural Households and Land Issues in Southern and Eastern Africa

This paper was prepared under contract with the Food and Agricutlrue Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). The positions and opinions presented are those of the author alone, and are not intended to represent the views of FAO.

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Land: Case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa A Synthesis Report prepared for the Southern African Regional Office of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Integrating Land Issues and Land Policy with Poverty Reduction and Rural Development in Southern Africa

This paper is a synthesis of land issues and land policy constraints in Southern Africa prepared for the World Bank Regional Workshop on Land Issues in Africa and the Middle East held in Kampala, Uganda, 29 April to 2 May 2002. It synthesizes key points made in commissioned papers, plenary comments, and facilitated discussions from a special Southern Africa Working Group attended by conference ...

HIV/AIDS and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper aims to describe the ways in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic negatively influences food and livelihood security, how it impacts on the food and nutrition security of millions of households, the responses of these households and communities as well as the policy and programme implications. As far as possible, this paper uses examples from West Africa, but in their absence the author was f...

HIV/AIDS and the Agricultural Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: Anticipating the Consequences

This paper draws upon development economics theory, demographic projections, and empirical evidence to consider the likely consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for the agricultural sector of the hardest-hit countries of Eastern and Southern Africa. We identify four processes that have been underemphasized in previous analysis: 1) the momentum of long-term population growth rates; 2) substantia...