Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe

Global environmental change in Zimbabwe is intertwined with a challenging political environment, excessive economic decline, the depletion of scarce skills, and a generalized AIDS epidemic. Against this background, a development initiative known as the Protracted Relief Programme (PRP), led by the F...

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Autores principales: Drimie, Scott, Gandure, Sithabiso
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161605
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description Global environmental change in Zimbabwe is intertwined with a challenging political environment, excessive economic decline, the depletion of scarce skills, and a generalized AIDS epidemic. Against this background, a development initiative known as the Protracted Relief Programme (PRP), led by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) working with nongovermental organizations (NGOs) and supported by the Department for International Development (DFID), sought to build on and support existing livelihoods. This response was in contrast to the dominant form of external intervention—the distribution of food aid and the development of farming input schemes. The PRP targeted poor households by boosting their food production through promoting community gardens, conservation agriculture, seed multiplication, improving access to water, and providing care to the chronically ill.
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spelling CGSpace1616052025-11-06T04:35:16Z Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe Drimie, Scott Gandure, Sithabiso climate change HIV infections conservation agriculture department for international development food and agricultural organization of the united nations Global environmental change in Zimbabwe is intertwined with a challenging political environment, excessive economic decline, the depletion of scarce skills, and a generalized AIDS epidemic. Against this background, a development initiative known as the Protracted Relief Programme (PRP), led by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) working with nongovermental organizations (NGOs) and supported by the Department for International Development (DFID), sought to build on and support existing livelihoods. This response was in contrast to the dominant form of external intervention—the distribution of food aid and the development of farming input schemes. The PRP targeted poor households by boosting their food production through promoting community gardens, conservation agriculture, seed multiplication, improving access to water, and providing care to the chronically ill. 2008 2024-11-21T09:56:46Z 2024-11-21T09:56:46Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161605 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Drimie, Scott; Gandure, Sithabiso. 2008. Global environmental change and AIDS. RENEWAL Policy Brief 8. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161605
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HIV infections
conservation agriculture
department for international development
food and agricultural organization of the united nations
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Gandure, Sithabiso
Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe
title Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe
title_full Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe
title_fullStr Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe
title_full_unstemmed Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe
title_short Global environmental change and AIDS: Assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in Zimbabwe
title_sort global environmental change and aids assessing effectiveness of food security interventions to multiple stresses in zimbabwe
topic climate change
HIV infections
conservation agriculture
department for international development
food and agricultural organization of the united nations
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