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Livelihood Risk from HIV in Semi-Arid Tropics of Rural Andhra Pradesh

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Research Paper No. 2008/49
 
Title Livelihood Risk from HIV in Semi-Arid Tropics of Rural Andhra Pradesh
 
Creator Gandhi, B V J
Bantilan, M C S
Parthasarathy, D
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This paper discusses the livelihood dynamics in the fragile landscape of the semi-arid
tropics (SAT) of Andhra Pradesh. SAT is home to the poorest of the poor who live in
conditions of persistent drought, subsistence agriculture and poor access to markets. This
paper is a case study focusing particularly on labour migration, its role in influencing the
health risk behaviour of migrants and in the spread of the HIV epidemic among SAT rural
households. The most vulnerable population in these drought-prone regions are the migrant
labourers, and their vulnerability is influenced by three major factors—the vulnerability and
unstable productivity in the degraded and marginal landscape, the caste system that has
traditionally kept them backward and vulnerable, and experiences in the external
 
Publisher UNU-WIDER
 
Date 2008
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5274/1/BVJ-MCSB-DP-2008-RP49.pdf
Gandhi, B V J and Bantilan, M C S and Parthasarathy, D (2008) Livelihood Risk from HIV in Semi-Arid Tropics of Rural Andhra Pradesh. Monograph. UNU-WIDER.