Using Empirical Information in the Era of HIV/AIDS to Inform Mitigation and Rural Development Strategies: Selected Results from African Country Studies

David L. Mather (), Cynthia Donovan (), Thomas S. Jayne () and Michael T. Weber ()

No 84, International Development Working Papers from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: This paper summarizes empirical results from a synthesis of a set of country studies undertaken by Michigan State University and partner institutions in five African countries, each of which is based upon large-scale rural household surveys. The results demonstrate that the post-death land/labor ratios and income of rural households directly affected by prime-age adult mortality are more heterogeneous than implied by some of the literature and discussion among development practitioners.

Keywords: food security; food policy; HIV/AIDS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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