AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa
AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.05.008
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Robson, Elsbeth
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作者：
Ansell, Nicola;Hajdu, Flora;Robson, Elsbeth
“新变种饥荒”假说表明，艾滋病正在导致南部非洲的粮食不安全。拟议的因果机制包括因艾滋病对儿童获得继承财产和代代相传知识的影响而造成的谋生资产和技能的损失。本文采用可持续生计框架来研究艾滋病如何影响两个南部非洲国家的年轻人获得资产和技能：马拉维和莱索托。通过对农村青年的定性研究，本文表明，艾滋病影响了一些年轻人获得某些生计资产的机会，但这种影响并不是系统的或可预测的，其影响也不总是负面的。更广泛的文化和体制背景至关重要。该文件还表明，可持续生计框架需要更多地考虑生计的暂时性，特别是生命过程和世代的重要性。(C)2016年提交人。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。这是一篇在CC许可下的开放获取文章。
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. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.