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Interactions Between the Agricultural Sector and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Implications for agricultural policy

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  • Thom S. Jayne
  • Marcela Villarreal
  • Prabhu Pingali

    (Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization)

  • Günter Hemrich

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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 projections of future demographic change in the hardest-hit countries of eastern and southern Africa, HIV/AIDS is likely to have the following effects on the agricultural sector: (1) increased rural inequality caused by disproportionately severe effects of AIDS on relatively poor households; (2) a reduction in household assets and wealth, leading to less capital-intensive cropping systems for severely affected communities and households; and (3) problems in transferring knowledge of crop husbandry and marketing to the succeeding generation of African farmers. It is argued that -- even though the absolute number of working age adults in the hardest-hit countries is projected to remain roughly the same over the next two decades -- the cost of labour in agriculture may rise in some areas as increasing scarcity of capital (notably, animal draft power for land preparation and weeding) will increase the demand for labour in agricultural production or shift agricultural systems to less labour- and capital-intensive crops.

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Paper provided by Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA) in its series Working Papers with number 04-06.

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Length: 43 pages
Date of creation: 2004
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Handle: RePEc:fao:wpaper:0406

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Keywords: AIDS; Food policies; HIV infections; Human immunodeficiency virus; Right to food; Self sufficiency;

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  1. Scott Naysmith & Alex Waal & Alan Whiteside, 2009. "Revisiting new variant famine: the case of Swaziland," The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer, vol. 1(3), pages 251-260, September.
  2. Lambrou, Yianna & Laub, Regina, 2006. "Gender, Local Knowledge, and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity," Working Papers RP2006/69, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  3. Curry, John & Wiegers, Esther & Garbero, Alessandra & Stokes, Shannon & Hourihan, John, 2006. "Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rural Livelihoods: Micro-Level Investigations in Three African Countries," Working Papers RP2006/110, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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