- Title
- Impacts of HIV/AIDS on food consumption and wild food use in rural South Africa
- Creator
- Ncube, Keitometsi
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Creator
- Swallow, Brent M
- Creator
- Dassanayake, Wijaya
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180412
- Identifier
- vital:43385
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-016-0624-4"
- Description
- HIV/AIDS can affect household food consumption in many ways, including through reductions in availability and quality of labour, reductions in earned income, and increased expenditure on medications. In rural South Africa, these negative effects can be buffered by social safety net programs provided by government and collection of wild foods. Despite some acknowledgement of the potential safety net role of wild foods, however, their contribution relative to other food sources in the context of HIV/AIDS remains underexplored. Here we report empirical findings from two rural communities in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to characterise food sources, intake and calories from 68 HIV/AIDS afflicted households and 87 non-afflicted households every quarter over 12 months. Results show that diets were moderately well-balanced though limited in variety, with cereal items contributing 52 % to total calorie intake. The bulk of food consumed by households was purchased, with supplementation from own production, collected wild vegetables and collected wild fruits. Up to 20 % of respondents from both HIV/ AIDS afflicted and non-afflicted households had insufficient daily caloric intake. Multivariate analyses show that, all else equal, individuals living in households afflicted by HIV/AIDS consumed fewer calories, had less diverse diets, and were more dependent on wild foods than those living in non-afflicted households. Given the detrimental effects of HIV/AIDS on income and home production, wild foods represent a free and readily available food source for vulnerable households.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (17 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer Link
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Food Security
- Relation
- Ncube, K., Shackleton, C.M., Swallow, B.M. and Dassanayake, W., 2016. Impacts of HIV/AIDS on food consumption and wild food use in rural South Africa. Food security, 8(6), pp.1135-1151
- Relation
- Food Security volume 8 number 6 p. 1135 2016 1876-4525
- Rights
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- Open Access
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Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 02. Zero Hunger
SDG 01. No Poverty
RU Department of Environmental Science
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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