Análise da Mortalidade de Adultos Nos Agregados Familiares Rurais em Moçambique e Implicações para Políticas. (Analysis of Adult Mortality Within Rural Households in Mozambique and Implication For Policy)

David Mather (), Higino Marrule Marrule, Cynthia Donovan (), Michael T. Weber () and Albertina Alage Alage
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David Mather: Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

No MZ-MINAG-FL-40P, International Development Collaborative Policy Briefs from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: This paper has four main objectives: 1) To present a cost-effective method of investigating the effect of prime-age mortality on rural households by adding a mortality component to on-going nationally-representative household surveys; 2) to investigate who is afflicted with prime-age mortality due to illness, by analyzing the characteristics of the deceased individuals (gender, age, and position within the household at the time of death) and of the affected households (geographic location, and ex post income and landholding); 3) to investigate how the households with prime-age (PA; 15-49 years of age) adult death or illness respond by adjusting household composition and their agricultural activities; and 4) to discuss the implications of household responses to PA adult death for agricultural policies and programs, and for their role in mitigating the effects of PA adult mortality.

Keywords: food security; food policy; Mozambique; aids; hiv (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004

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