New variant famine: AIDS and food crisis in southern Africa

Waal, Alex de; Whiteside, Alan

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(03)14548-5

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“…At a household level, coping strategies in response to the economic impacts of morbidity or mortality of household members may include the sale of natural products such as grass mats, bark cloth, fuelwood and fruits (Barnett and Haslwimmer, 1995;Katunzi, 1999). Also, agricultural productivity may be compromised as a result of the loss of prime-age labor (e.g., de Waal and Whiteside, 2003). Less labor-intensive and less nutritious crops may be farmed, or land may lay fallow thereby threatening tenure (Haddad and Gillespie, 2001).…”

Section: B) Morbidity and Mortality Rural Livelihoods And Environmentioning

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Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Sherbinin¹,

VanWey²,

McSweeney³

et al. 2008

Global Environmental Change

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This paper reviews and synthesizes findings from scholarly work on linkages among rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment. Using the livelihood approach as an organizing framework, we examine evidence on the multiple pathways linking environmental variables and the following demographic variables: fertility, migration, morbidity and mortality, and lifecycles. Although the review draws on studies from the entire developing world, we find the majority of micro-level studies have been conducted in either marginal (mountainous or arid) or frontier environments, especially Amazonia. Though the linkages are mediated by many complex and often context-specific factors, there is strong evidence that dependence on natural resources intensifies when households lose human and social capital through adult morbidity and mortality, and qualified evidence for the influence of environmental factors on household decision-making regarding fertility and migration. Two decades of research on lifecycles and land-cover change at the farm level have yielded a number of insights about how households make use of different land-use and natural resource management strategies at different stages. A thread running throughout the review is the Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access

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Section: B) Morbidity and Mortality Rural Livelihoods And Environmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Sherbinin¹,

VanWey²,

McSweeney³

et al. 2008

Global Environmental Change

350

217

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“…While advocacy groups have called for specifi c interventions for populations affected by violence on the basis that these populations have elevated rates of HIV/AIDS, other groups, such as the media, have at times translated these calls for attention into a heightened discrimination by portraying displaced persons and refugees as threats leading to increasing HIV rates in the welcoming communities [6]. Such emotive discourse has reached the highest levels of international decision-making, including the United Nations Security Council [7][8][9]; meanwhile, discussions on how to actually provide HIV/ AIDS care to confl ict-affected populations have occupied less space. Only recently has research evidence emerged indicating that HIV/AIDS rates are generally not higher within populations affected by violence.…”

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Providing antiretroviral care in conflict settings

Mills

Ford²,

Singh³

et al. 2009

Curr HIV/AIDS Rep

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“…For example, the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has reduced the provisioning ecosystem service of food supply (de Waal and Whiteside 2003). The high prevalence of yellow fever and malaria delayed the construction of the Panama Canal, and sleeping sickness still limits human settlement and thereby affects human access to ecosystem services in parts of central Africa (Bhalla 2002).…”

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Human Health, Well-Being, and Global Ecological Scenarios

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This article categorizes four kinds of adverse effects to human health caused by ecosystem change: direct, mediated, modulated, and systems failure. The effects are categorized on their scale, complexity, and lag-time. Some but not all of these can be classified as resulting from reduced ecosystem services. The articles also explores the impacts that different socioeconomic-ecologic scenarios are likely to have on human health and how changes to human health may, in turn, influence the unfolding of four different plausible future scenarios. We provide examples to show that our categorization is a useful taxonomy for understanding the complex relationships between ecosystems and human well-being and for predicting how future ecosystem changes may affect human health.

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New variant famine: AIDS and food crisis in southern Africa

Cited by 282 publications

References 10 publications

Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

Providing antiretroviral care in conflict settings

Human Health, Well-Being, and Global Ecological Scenarios

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