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Title: | Southern Africa Assessment: Food Security and HIV/AIDS |
Author: | Jooma, Mariam Bibi |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | African Security Review |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 59-66 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | food security AIDS agricultural policy food aid Health and Nutrition Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2005.9627336 |
Abstract: | This article identifies HIV/AIDS and food insecurity (particularly in rural areas) as the two most severe and interrelated humanitarian issues currently facing southern Africa. It argues that the current situation must be contextualized as an 'entangling crisis' of climatic factors, chronic poverty, the failure of economic and political governance, and the impact of HIV/AIDS on the ability of individuals to respond independently. HIV/AIDS has altered the demographic profile of conventional famines by targeting young productive adults - mostly in agriculture, and more women than men, which differs from the traditional victims of famines, namely elderly men and children. The addition of HIV/AIDS as a multidimensional stress to the social and economic fabric of southern African society requires urgent cross-cutting attention. The immediate and short-term emergency relief of food aid has in itself become an impediment to long-term management of the situation. To 'make poverty history' requires more than an increase in aid, namely an understanding of the extent to which human insecurity is compounded by intensifying conditions of political, socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |