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Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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País: |
United States
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Título: |
HIV/AIDS and Agrarian Livelihoods in Zambia: A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis
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Autores: |
Mason, Nicole M.
Chapoto, Antony
Jayne, Thomas S.
Myers, Robert J.
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Data: |
2009-10-28
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Ano: |
2007
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Palavras-chave: |
Food security
Policy
Zambia
Africa
HIV/AIDS
Crop Production/Industries
Health Economics and Policy
Q18
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Resumo: |
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 suggests that HIV/AIDS is eroding agrarian livelihoods and exacerbating the effects of drought and other shocks on agrarian communities. These concepts have begun to shape the HIV/AIDS mitigation and food security policies and programs of governments and development agencies. To date, however, there is a dearth of empirical evidence to support the NVF hypothesis, and there have been no studies specifically designed to tests its predictions.
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Tipo: |
Report
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Idioma: |
Inglês
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Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/54489
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Relação: |
Michigan State University>Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics>Food Security Collaborative Working Papers
Food Security Research Project, Lusaka, Zambia, Working Paper
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Formato: |
51
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