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Interactions between the Agricultural Sector and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Implications for Agricultural Policy

Jayne, Thomas S.; Villarreal, Marcela; Pingali, Prabhu L.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

This paper considers how the design of agricultural policies and programmes might be modified to better achieve policy objectives in the context of severe HIV epidemics and underscores the central role of agricultural policy in mitigating the spread and impacts of the epidemic. Based on...

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A Cross-Country Analysis of Household Responses to Adult Mortality in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications For HIV/AIDS Mitigation And Rural Development Policies.

Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

This paper summarizes and synthesizes across the results of a set of country studies on the effects of prime-age adult mortality on rural households in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia. Each study is based on large representative rural household surveys. These findings have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008499769

Análise de Mortalidade de Adultos em Agregados Familiares Rurais em Moçambique e as Implicações para as Políticas

Mather, David; Marrule, Higino Francisco de; Donovan, … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509177

Analysis of Adult Mortality Within Rural Households in Mozambique and Implications for Policy

Mather, David; Marrule, Higino Francisco de; Donovan, … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509178

Using Empirical Information in the Era of HIV/AIDS to Inform Mitigation and Rural Development Strategies: Selected Results from African Country Studies

Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2005

This paper summarizes empirical results from a synthesis of a set of country studies undertaken by Michigan State University and partner institutions in five African countries, each of which is based upon large-scale rural household surveys. The results demonstrate that the post-death land/labor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543633

Characteristics Associated with Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya

Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Kirimi, Lilian; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

Campaigns to prevent the spread of HIV require accurate knowledge of the characteristics of those most likely to contract the disease. Studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s generally found a positive correlation between socioeconomic characteristics such as education, income,...

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Security of Widows’ Access to Land in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia (revised version)

Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

children against property grabbing by relatives of the deceased as well as to institute property rights that are more …

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Security of Widows’ Access to Land in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia

Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2006

Beyond the obvious catastrophic effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on mortality, demographic changes, and the suffering of individuals and their families, we are still only learning about the complex longer-term effects of the pandemic on poverty and vulnerability. For example, the HIV/AIDS...

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HIV/AIDS and Agrarian Livelihoods in Zambia: A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis

Mason, Nicole M.; Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

Since the southern African food crisis of 2001/02, the ‘new-variant famine’ (NVF) hypothesis first proposed by de Waal and Whiteside (2003) has become an important part of the conventional wisdom surrounding the relationship between HIV/AIDS and food crises in the region. The NVF hypothesis...

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Impacts of Prime Age Adult Mortality on Rural Household Income, Assets, and Poverty in Mozambique: Analysis with the TIA Panel Data Set

Donovan, Cynthia; Mather, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

Research Results from the Department of Statistics and the Policy Department, MINAG-Directorate of Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530573