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

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

Linking Migration, HIV/AIDS and Urban Food Security in Southern and Eastern Africa

ii Summary This paper provides a review of the literature on migration, HIV/AIDS and urban food security, and attempts to draw the links between these three powerful dynamics which are at play in Southern and Eastern Africa. The aim of the paper is to stimulate discussion and provide a platform for developing an action research agenda to inform policy and programming within these three intercon...

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...

Adult mortality and household food security in rural South Africa: Does AIDS represent a unique mortality shock?

HIV/AIDS has been described as a household shock distinct from others faced by rural households. This study examines this characterisation by analysing the impact of an adult HIV/AIDS-related death on household food security, compared with households experiencing either no mortality or a sudden non-HIV/AIDS adult death. The research is based in the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance ...

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 ...