HIV/AIDS, Gender Inequality and the Agricultural Sector

This 42-page set of guidelines offer a synopsis of existing information related to the links between HIV/AIDS, gender inequality, and agricultural development, and they provide a series of recommendations as to how these factors can be taken into account when developing, reviewing, and implementing agricultural programmes. They are intended to provide direction to agricultural programmers by identifying areas of intervention, but have been kept general in order to be adaptable by the end-user in various settings.

The Interagency Coalition on Aids and Development (ICAD) developed these guidelines with School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University, the Southern African AIDS Trust, and CHF-Partners in Rural Development. Input was also included from community organisations, national and international non-government organisations, agricultural institutions and government representatives working in the area of food security in the Southern African Development Community region. The framework for the guidelines was established at a three-day consultation held in Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug. 25 to 27, 2004.