Gender, AIDS and food security: culture and vulnerability in rural Côte d'Ivoire

This book is about the effects of AIDS on women and food security in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. AIDS is more than a health problem. Rural households and women in particular have to cope with the lack of labour in agriculture which threatens their food security. For the matrilineal Agni women...

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1. Verfasser: Maiga, Mariame 1966- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers 2010
Schriftenreihe:AWLAE series no. 11
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Zusammenfassung:This book is about the effects of AIDS on women and food security in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. AIDS is more than a health problem. Rural households and women in particular have to cope with the lack of labour in agriculture which threatens their food security. For the matrilineal Agni women land ownership appears to be an unexpected burden, rather than a safeguard from poverty. Culture matters, but not in similar ways everywhere. Matrilineal or patrilineal kinship organisation, gender inequality, and norms about sexual relationships very much influence the differences in Agni and migrant women's vulnerability to AIDS. African women are often seen as victims of AIDS. This study shows that women may also use their creativity and social networks to battle and to be resilient against the effects of the illness in their everyday household activities. Using a combination of quantitative statistical data and qualitative
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of contents""; ""List of tables""; ""List of figures""; ""List of acronyms""; ""Glossary ""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Motivation for the study: why is it so difficult to defeat AIDS?""; ""1.2 The research problem""; ""1.3 Research objectives and questions""; ""1.3.1 Goals""; ""1.3.2 Objectives""; ""1.3.3 Research questions and sub-questions""; ""1.4 The structure of the book""; ""Chapter 2. Country and study area profiles""; ""2.1 Country profile""; ""2.1.1 Geography, population and migration""; ""2.1.2 Ecological background""
""2.1.3 National, institutional and socio-economic context""""2.3 The AIDS epidemic and AIDS policy in C�te d�Ivoire""; ""2.3.1 International agencies and programmes on AIDS""; ""2.3.2 AIDS policies and interventions and leadership problems""; ""2.4 ANADER, agricultural extension services and the response to AIDS ""; ""2.4.1 The Fonds-Mondial-ANADER programme""; ""2.4.2 The PEPFAR-ANADER programme""; ""2.5 Description of the study area: modernity and tradition""; ""2.5.1 Location, social structure and socio-economic characteristics""
""2.5.2 Migrants among the Agni: the integration issue""""2.5.3 AIDS awareness and intervention programmes""; ""2.5.4 Environmental degradation in the study area ""; ""Chapter 3. Conceptual framework""; ""3.1 Livelihood""; ""3.2 The household""; ""3.3 Gender and AIDS""; ""3.4 Matrilineal and patrilineal kinship""; ""3.5 Vulnerability""; ""3.6 Resilience""; ""3.7 Human agency""; ""3.7.1 Giddens� structuration theory""; ""3.7.2 Bourdieu�s theory of practice""; ""3.7.3 The actor-oriented approach""; ""3.8 Food security""; ""3.9 Forest degradation""; ""3.10 Research framework ""
""Chapter 4. Research design and methodology""""4.1 Phases of the fieldwork""; ""4.2 The study design""; ""4.3 The methods of data collection and analysis""; ""4.3.1 Secondary data""; ""4.3.2 The household survey""; ""4.3.3 Focus Group Discussions (FGD)""; ""4.3.4 Key informant interviews""; ""4.3.5 Case studies and observation""; ""4.4 Ethical considerations and problems encountered during data collection""; ""Chapter 5. Internal vulnerability of Agni and migrant households""; ""5.1 Profiles of Agni and migrant households""; ""5.1.1 Demographic characteristics of households""
""5.1.2 Tangible assets of households""""5.1.3 Water and energy access and use""; ""5.1.4 Land access and use""; ""5.2 Culture, matrilineal and patrilineal kinship, and AIDS""; ""5.2.1 The culture and matrilineality of autochthonous Agni""; ""5.2.2 The culture and patrilineality of the migrants""; ""5.3 Impacts of morbidity and mortality on livelihoods""; ""5.3.1 Impacts of morbidity on livelihoods assets and activities""; ""5.3.2 Impacts of mortality on livelihoods assets and activities""; ""5.4 Labour shortage""; ""5.4.1 Funerals in the Agni community and their economic impacts""
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (191 Seiten) Illustrationen, map
ISBN:9086867154
9789086867158
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-715-8

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