HIV/AIDS, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods: Understanding and Responding
Michael Loevinsohn; Stuart Gillespie (2003)
This paper dicusses the impact of HIV/AIDS on development efforts, particularly in Africa, and presents a new approach to guide agriculture and food policies.
It argues that:
HIV/AIDS is a development problem, not just a health problem, and change is required in attitudes and consciousness of what HIV/AIDS is doing at different levels and the pathways through which it moves through societies
one major set of responses is required from the agriculture sector, as the need to secure and provision food for populations affected by HIV/AIDS is rapidly increasing as the impact waves hit
a new awareness may be facilitated by the use of an 'HIV/AIDS lens'
the 'HIV/AIDS lens' is an actor-oriented tool that links the concepts of resistance (ability to avoid HIV infection) and resilience (ability to withstand the different impacts from AIDS) and puts them at the basis of all processes of understanding and responding at all levels
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