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HIV/AIDS and Land

• The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access and rights)as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups.


• How HIV/AIDS-affected households are coping in terms of land use, management and access, e.g. abandoning land due to fear of loss, renting out due to inability to utilise land, distress sale of land, etc.


• The consequences of such coping strategies on security of access and rights to land.


• How changes in land tenure, access and rights to land among different categories of people as a consequence of HIV/AIDS affect agricultural productivity, food security and poverty, with a focus on women.


• The future implications for land tenure arrangements for HIV/AIDS-affected households and individuals, particularly of AIDS widows and HIV+ orphans.


• Priority areas for policy interventions with concrete recommendations for securing the land rights of people affected by HIV/AIDS.


• Areas for research.

Date: 24-25 June 2002
The papers are available on the SARPN website at http://www.sarpn.org.za/EventPapers/june2002/hiv/papers.php

6. Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and HIV/AIDS
Source: Oxfam GB (Dan Mullins, Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Co-ordinator)
Summary: Includes introduction, some lessons of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, impacts on people, implications for land reform ?– impacts on institutions, relationships between affected people and institutions, some proposals. Argues the need to understand how the pandemic affects the work of organisations such as Oxfam and to anticipate its future directions and their likely impacts on land reform.
Date: 4-5 June 2001 (SARPN Conference)
Download the full paper (633K.doc file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/LRPRHIV.doc

7. HIV/AIDS and its Impact on Land Issues in Malawi. Paper presented at FAO/SARPN Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Land, 24-25 June, Pretoria
Source: Sue Mbaya (research commissioned by Oxfam GB)
Summary: Shortened version of longer research report for Oxfam GB. Includes introduction, the Malawi context, summary of methodology, summary of findings, recommendations. Argues there is a need to ensure that key laws, policies and development strategies be reviewed to ensure that provisions which marginalise those affected by HIV/AIDS are amended. Need for land administration institutions to grasp the present impact and future implications of the pandemic in terms of their own declining internal capacity.
Date: 24-25 June 2002
Download the full paper (88K.pdf file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/MalHIV.pdf

8. The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Land Reform in KwaZulu-Natal
Source: SARPN (Scott Drimie and Deborah Heustice)
Summary: Proceedings of a seminar hosted by SARPN and HIVAN (Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. Contains:

• Introduction


• Overview of the current situation


• Overview of existing land reform HIV/AIDS policy and integration into Department of Land Affairs programmes


• Identification of key issues and challenges


• Developing a way forward.

Date: 23 November 2001
Download the full paper (151K.doc file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/HIVLRKZN.doc
This report, together with the six appendices and other items which are not included here, is also posted on SARPN's own website, at http://www.sarpn.org.za/eventshivland.php
This report and its annexures can be downloaded on the righthand side of this page