- Author
- du Guerny, Jacques
- Title
- Meeting the HIV/AIDS Challenge to Food Security: the role of labour saving technologies in farm-households
- Imprint
- UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme; FOA - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Bangkok, December 2002, 27 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 974-680-220-8
- Description
Reproduced with kind permission of the UNDP.
- Abstract
"The paper focuses on the various types and levels of constraints faced by farm-households as a production and reproduction system within a farming system such as time and energy limitations created by HIV/AIDS provoked shortages. The paper highlights the contributions various [labour saving technolgies] LSTs could provide while also stressing the conditions - including gender ones - which have to be met in order to introduce LSTs successfully. LSTs are a partial solution to HIV/AIDS problems, but also represent a challenge to the way agriculture is practiced and to common policies in both agriculture and HIV/AIDS. The focus on LSTs is a fertile field for cooperation between sectors, between public and private institutions, North-South and South-South cooperation."
Related Entries
Inter-Governmental Organisations
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, United Nations (1945 - )
- UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme, United Nations Development Programme (1999 - )
- United Nations Development Programme, United Nations (1966 - )