Pocketbook on integrating HIV/AIDS considerations into food security and livelihoods projects
This pocketbook provides a checklist of questions to provide guidance for incorporating HIV/AIDS considerations into food security and livelihoods projects.
The FAO HIV/AIDS Programme has produced a series of fact sheets for extensionists and fieldworkers to support families in HIV/AIDS affected areas. These fact sheets answer common questions about HIV/AIDS and allow extension workers to provide advice on areas such as nutrition, small livestock production and labour-saving technologies.
The FAO HIV/AIDS Programme has produced a series of fact sheets. FAO has been mandated by its governing bodies to monitor the impact of HIV/AIDS on food security. In addition, FAO supports its member countries in their efforts to prevent the worsening of the epidemic and to mitigate it negative effects on food security and nutrition.
Population ageing in developing regions: focusing on the oldest old
This note takes a closer look at the oldest old – defined here as persons aged over 70 years – with the aim to highlight the expected changes in their relative numbers and sketch the implications for development interventions.
Interactions between the agricultural sector and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Implications for agriculture policy. FAO
There is an urgent need to consider how the design of agricultural policies and programs might be modified to better achieve the objectives of the agricultural sector in light of the reality of AIDS, as well as consider the role of agricultural policy in mitigating the spread and impacts of the AIDS epidemic. Based on projections of future demographic change in the hardest-hit countries of Eastern... more
The UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme and FAO jointly organized the African-Asian Agriculture against AIDS Consultation on Agriculture, Development and HIV-vulnerability Reduction in order to formulate innovative approaches (a) to enable countries to face the challenges posed by the pandemic, (b) to build stronger links among those who are addressing the problem and (c) to take ac... more
The Challenge of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Rural Ethiopia: Averting the Crisis in Low AIDS-Impacted Communities
Ethiopia is classified as belonging to the ‘next wave countries’ with large populations at risk from HIV infection which will eclipse the current focal point of the epidemic in central and southern Africa.
Rural population ageing in developing countries: issues for consideration by FAO
This paper discusses the implications of rural population ageing for agriculture, food security and sustainable rural development in low-income countries.
Rural population ageing and sustainable rural development: Report on a brainstorming workshop
The report presents an overview of a one-day brainstorming workshop organized by FAO in order to discuss the implications of ageing for agriculture and rural development; identify research needs and explore ways of developing appropriate indicators, and; outline options for appropriate policy responses.
