eprintid: 5274
rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2012-01-30 14:14:52
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type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org
creators_name: Gandhi, B V J
creators_name: Bantilan, M C S
creators_name: Parthasarathy, D
icrisatcreators_name: Gandhi, B V J
icrisatcreators_name: Bantilan, M C S
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: IIT(Mumbai)
country: India
title: Livelihood Risk from HIV in Semi-Arid Tropics of Rural Andhra Pradesh
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: research_report
abstract: 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
date: 2008
date_type: published
publisher: UNU-WIDER
pages: 28
id_number: Research Paper No. 2008/49
institution: World Institute for Development Economics Research
isbn: 9789292300975
related_url_url: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=Livelihood+Risk+from+HIV+in+Semi-Arid+Tropics+of+Rural+Andhra+Pradesh+&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdtf=&as_sd
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citation:   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.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/5274/1/BVJ-MCSB-DP-2008-RP49.pdf