Income-generating activities for young people in southern Africa: Exploring AIDS and other constraints

Hajdú, Flóra; Ansell, Nicola; Robson, Elsbeth; Blerk, Lorraine van; Chipeta, Lucy

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00381.x

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“…Myriad causes precipitated failure: theft of money, tools or materials; lack of appropriate skills (including basic accounting); and ‘eating the capital’, prioritising current consumption over future benefits (Hajdu et al . ). In many cases failure resulted from unpredictable circumstances, sometimes probably AIDS‐related.…”

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Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS‐affected southern Africa

Ansell

Hajdú

Blerk

et al. 2013

Trans Inst British Geog

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In recent years, anxieties have been expressed that the impacts of southern Africa's AIDS pandemic on young people today will damage their future livelihood prospects. Geographers have been remarkably reluctant to explore young people's future livelihoods, inspired by a concern to view young people as human beings, worthy of study in their own right rather than mere human becomings, of interest only as ‘adults in the making’. Yet there is growing acknowledgement that young people, like older people, are always both ‘being and becoming’. The connections between current and future lives merit much greater attention, both because experiences and actions in childhood and youth undoubtedly shape the futures of individuals and wider society, but also because young people's thoughts and actions are so often geared to the future, and this future orientation shapes their present worlds. This paper reports on research that set out to explore links between the impacts of AIDS and young people's livelihood prospects. Intensive case study research was undertaken, combining participatory methods and life history interviews with young people aged 10–24 in two villages, one in southern Malawi and the other in the mountains of Lesotho. By theorising a temporal dimension to de Haan and Zoomers’ concept of livelihood trajectories, the paper focuses on the ways in which young people respond to both the immediate sustenance requirements of themselves and their households and their need to accrue assets for future livelihoods. Some young people's trajectories appear to be disturbed by the influence of AIDS, but with no systematic patterns. Beyond addressing empirical questions concerning the impacts of AIDS, the paper contributes to our understanding of how livelihoods are produced and to the conceptualisation of youth transitions as produced through the iteration of present and future.

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Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS‐affected southern Africa

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Hajdú

Blerk

et al. 2013

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Participatory ethnography might have advantages as researchers can engage with participants individually as well as collectively producing knowledge and action with them over time and through direct involvement in their lives and communities. Hajdu, F, Ansell, N, Robson, E, Van Blerk, L and Chipeta, L (2011) Income-generating activities for young people in southern Africa: Exploring AIDS and other constraints.…”

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New knowledge on children and young people: A Synthesis of Evidence from the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research

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“…If the current epidemic trends continue through the end of this decade, it is estimated that between 30 and 40 million adults will have been infected with HIV by the year 2020. Of these, about 60 per cent will be in sub-Saharan Africa [25,26].…”

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Empirical Analysis of Interactions of Agricultural Sector and HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa

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2013

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This study examines long run economic cost of HIV/AIDS on agriculture. Twenty-two African Countries were identified through purposive sampling. The sampling procedure helped to identify 1420 affected households. However, 1300 observations were found suitable for the subsequent analysis. Data were subjected to descriptive statistics and Overlapping Generation (OLG) model. The causes of high prevalence rates are the issue of poverty, fertility, myth and migration among others. Factors responsible for the classification of high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates were the patterns of spread of infectious disease that are closely associated with patterns of human mobility. For lower HIV/AIDS prevalence rate factors were low values of procreation and high values placed on morals. A positive correlation between HIV prevalence and GDP per capita was found. The study found out that there is a curvilinear relationship between the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and agricultural/economic growth in terms of human capita development.

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Income-generating activities for young people in southern Africa: Exploring AIDS and other constraints

Abstract: This paper reports on a study with rural young people (aged 10-24 years) in Malawi and Lesotho, focusing on their opportunities to learn skills and access capital and assets to engage in income

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS‐affected southern Africa

Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS‐affected southern Africa

New knowledge on children and young people: A Synthesis of Evidence from the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research

Empirical Analysis of Interactions of Agricultural Sector and HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa

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