IFPRI’s Program on “HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security”

HIV/AIDS and food insecurity are increasingly entwinedin a vicious cycle

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

© 2006 Don Doering/IFPRI

IFPRI’s Program on “HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security”

Malnutrition and food insecurity heighten susceptibility to HIV exposure and infection

AIDS in turn exacerbates hunger and malnutrition

Links between the AIDS epidemic and hunger are particularly acute in rural communities

Households are often dependent on agriculture for both income and food

Links between HIV/AIDS and Agriculture

Agricultural policies that are blind to HIV/AIDS can accelerate the spread of the virus and fail to help households respond to its effects

Links between HIV/AIDS and Agriculture

IFPRI’s Program on “HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security”

AIDS, agriculture, and livelihoods

AIDS, community resilience, and social protection

AIDS and nutrition security

THEMES

The Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods & Food Security (RENEWAL)

RENEWAL brings together national networks of: researchers, policymakers, public & private

organizations NGOs

to focus on the interactions between HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security

RENEWAL is active in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia

Goals of IFPRI’s research, outreach, and partnership activities

IFPRI seeks to better understand: how livelihoods,

particularly those based on agriculture, affect the spread of HIV & resilience to AIDS

Goals of IFPRI’s research, outreach, and partnership activities

how HIV and AIDS impact agricultural systems, livelihoods, and food & nutrition security

how food and nutrition policies and programs can help prevent or mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS