Ansell, Nicola and Hajdu, Flora and van Blerk, Lorraine and Robson, Elsbeth
(2016).
AIDS-affected young people’s access to livelihood assets: Exploring ‘new variant famine’ in rural southern Africa.
Journal of rural studies. 46
, 23-34
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.05.008
Abstract
The 'new variant famine' hypothesis suggests AIDS is contributing to food insecurity in southern Africa. Proposed causal mechanisms include a loss of livelihood assets and skills, brought about through AIDS' impacts on children's access to inherited property and intergenerationally-transferred knowledge. This paper employs a sustainable livelihoods framework to examine how AIDS is impacting on young people's access to assets and skills in two southern African countries: Malawi and Lesotho. Drawing on qualitative research with rural youth, the paper shows that AIDS affects some young people's access to some livelihood assets, but does not do so in a systematic or predictable way, nor are its impacts invariably negative. The broader cultural and institutional context is of key importance. The paper also demonstrates the need for the sustainable livelihoods framework to take greater account of the temporalities of livelihoods, and in particular the significance of lifecourse and generation.
Authors/Creators: | Ansell, Nicola and Hajdu, Flora and van Blerk, Lorraine and Robson, Elsbeth | ||||
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Title: | AIDS-affected young people’s access to livelihood assets: Exploring ‘new variant famine’ in rural southern Africa | ||||
Series/Journal: | Journal of rural studies (0743-0167) | ||||
Year of publishing : | 2016 | ||||
Volume: | 46 | ||||
Page range: | 23-34 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
ISSN: | 0743-0167 | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||
Version: | Published version | ||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||
Agris subject categories.: | E Economics, development, and rural sociology > E50 Rural sociology and social security | ||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 507 Social and Economic Geography > Human Geography | ||||
Keywords: | Children, HIV, Livelihoods, Rural, Youth, Southern Africa | ||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4128 | ||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4128 | ||||
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ID Code: | 14264 | ||||
Faculty: | LTV - Fakulteten för landskapsarkitektur, trädgårds- och växtproduktionsvetenskap | ||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development | ||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||
Deposited On: | 26 Apr 2017 11:32 | ||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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