World AIDS Day on 1 December draws together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic. To that purpose, FAO Senior Officer in the Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, Gabriel Rugalema co-edited a book called ¿Aids and Rural Livelihoods¿, together with Anke Niehof, Chair of Sociology of Consumers and Households and Stuart Gillespie, Senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). This book brings together recent evidence of AIDS impacts on rural households, livelihoods, and agricultural practice in Sub-Saharan Africa. It also represents a