The HIV/AIDS pandemic threatens economic, social, and environmental sustainability throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reports on a qualitative study exploring interrelationships between HIV/AIDS, labor availability, agricultural productivity, household resources, food consumption, and health status in rural southeastern Uganda. Respondents reported an increase in widow-and-orphan-headed ...

This study examines the relationship between magnitude of climate variability and household vulnerability in catchment areas Sot Khola sub-water basin western mountainous Surkhet, Nepal by constructing a theoretical index based on household-level data collected from 642 Household covering adaptive, sensitive, exposure. Its result is (CVI) households living sub water basin’s areas, which provide...

BACKGROUND Orphaned and vulnerable adolescents (OVA) in sub-Saharan Africa are at greater risk for adverse psychological outcomes compared with their non-OVA counterparts. Social interventions that provide cash transfers (CTs) have been shown to improve health outcomes among young people, but little is known about their impact on the psychological wellbeing of OVA. OBJECTIVE Among OVA in west...

OBJECTIVE Canada's Aboriginal population is vulnerable to food insecurity and increasingly lives off-reserve. The Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.2 Nutrition, was used to compare the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of food insecurity between non-Aboriginal and off-reserve Aboriginal households. DESIGN Food insecurity status was based on Health Canada's revised interpretat...

We estimate a panel data model of household incomes in Hungary and Russia during the 1990s. The model allows for nonlinear dynamics in endogenous household incomes and for endogenous attrition. Our estimates reveal nonlinearity in the dynamics, consistent with the claim that income inequality is bad for growth in mean income. We do not find evidence of an unstable dynamic equilibrium, such that...

As cost of living rises and people’s wages / salaries do not cover their basic food and dietary needs, interest in parttime farming has risen. Part-time farming activities are being practiced by different people as a food security strategy from vulnerable households. But these part-time farms have had limited success in providing food/nutrition security, increasing incomes and improving well-be...

Social institutions that facilitate sharing and redistribution may help mitigate the impact of resource shocks. In the North American Arctic, traditional food sharing may direct food to those who need it and provide a form of natural insurance against temporal variability in hunting returns within households. Here, network properties that facilitate resource flow (network size, quality, and den...

Bangladesh is a culturally conservative nation with limited freedom for women. A number of studies have evaluated intimate partner violence (IPV) and spousal physical violence in Bangladesh; however, the views of women have been rarely discussed in a quantitative manner. Three nationwide surveys in Bangladesh (2007, 2011, and 2014) were analyzed in this study to characterize the most vulnerable...