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The Agriculure, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Connections in Developing Countries
A posting from an Eldis Listserve (www.eldis.org). May 2004.
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Author(s): Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD). Produced by: USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)/ Development Experience System (DEXS)(2003).
This essay was invited by USAID, and is intended to inform its strategic planning in agriculture. It seeks to create an awareness of the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV/AIDS in developing nations and to then suggest cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three.
The principal conclusions of the paper include:
- poverty is principally a rural problem
- undernutrition and HIV/AIDS are closely associated with rural poverty
- rural poverty is a problem of the poverty of agriculture in developing nations
- therefore, improvements in agriculture have a strategic role to play in combating poverty, undernutrition and HIV/AIDS
- yet, agriculture is not being used as a primary tool to combat undernutrition and HIV/AIDS (and it must be)
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The full report can be downloaded via the hyperlink on the righthand side of this page
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