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 …

Based on a qualitative study conducted in the township of Chibavi in Mzuzu City, Malawi,
this paper seeks to contribute to the emerging debate as to why orphans may be more …

A number of southern African countries have experienced food crises during recent years.
The fact that the scale of these crises has been disproportionate to the apparent triggers of …

Over the past two decades, southern Africa has experienced both exceptionally high AIDS
prevalence and recurrent food shortages. International institutions have responded to these …

Although making a large and rapid impact on our understandings of the interactions
between famine and HIV/AIDS, the new variant famine hypothesis has had little critical …

AIDS, in interaction with other factors, is impacting on the livelihood activities, opportunities
and choices of young people in southern Africa. This article explores these linkages firstly by …

This research paper was funded by Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI), The Embassy
of Ireland, Addis Ababa, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Addis …

The Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods, and Food Security (RENEWAL) was officially
launched in 2001 as a joint project of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) …

We have spent one quarter of a century attempting to deal with HIV and AIDS, or roughly half
the period of the post-colonial development era. Yet HIV and AIDS has become one of the …

In the midst of the 2002/3 food crisis in Southern Africa social scientists De Waal and
Whiteside, hypothesised in the Lancet that the AIDS pandemic was triggering a'new variant …