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Why communal pastoralists do what they do in the Richtersveld National Park
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: HH Hendricks JJ Midgley WJ Bond PA NovellieA better understanding of the socio-economic profile of pastoralists, their farming objectives and the motives underlying herd management practices in the Richtersveld were explored. Livestock were not the only source of income for pastoral households. Livestock farming was a post-retirement... -
Experiences of Children Heading Households in Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nomlindo E. Dlungwana --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Reshma Sathiparsad --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,This study explored the experiences of children who are heads of households, particularly with regard to the psychological, emotional and social effects of heading a household, and access to schooling and support services. Fifteen children (females, n=9; males, n= 6;... -
Experiences of Father Absence Adolescents from a South African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Toni Sylvester --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Olaniyi Bojuwoye --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThe study adopted interpretive/constructivist approach to examine father absence experience in teenage South African boys. Ten adolescent boys (with mean age of 15 years) from an impoverish suburb of Cape Town participated in the study. Mixed method data collection techniques... -
Ethnic Identification as Contributor to the Development of Moral Identity in Child-Headed Households
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jacqueline Pretorius --- Private Practice, Piet Retief, Susanne Jacobs --- North West University, South Africa Marie van Reenen --- North West University, South AfricaThis study explored whether ethnic membership was a core construct in the moral identity development of adolescents in Zulu child-headed households. A convenience sample of 60 participants (31 male and 29 female) were recruited for the study from a mixed... -
The children left to stand alone
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sidsel RoalkvamDrawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in Seke, a semi-rural area outside Harare, Zimbabwe, this paper explores the social mechanism behind the seeming invisibility of children left on their own and how this form of 'invisibility' challenges established notions of childhood, parenthood,... -
The significance of gathering wild orchid tubers for orphan household livelihoods in a context of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: JoyceFX Challe --- Department of Research and Training, Mikocheni Agricultural Institute, Tanzania Anke Niehof --- Sociology of Consumers and Households Group, The Netherlands PaulC Struik --- Centre for Crop System Analysis, The NetherlandsWe investigated the role of gathering and selling the edible tubers of wild orchids by children orphaned by AIDS as one of their livelihood strategies, through a household survey administered to 152 households in three villages in the Southern Highlands... -
Resilience through participation and coping-enabling social environments: the case of HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Morten Skovdal --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, Norway Marguerite Daniel --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, NorwayMany children and youths living in low-resource and high-HIV-prevalence communities in sub-Saharan Africa are presented with daily hardships that few of us can even imagine. It is therefore no surprise that most research reporting on the experiences of HIV-affected children... -
Youths navigating social networks and social support systems in settings of chronic crisis: the case of youth-headed households in Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Laura May Lee --- Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program, Green College, CanadaYouth-headed households in Rwanda live in a context of chronic crisis, where poverty, disease and uncertainty are not exceptional but characterise people's daily lived reality. Struggling under the pressures of economic deprivation, social isolation, abuse and exploitation, these youths experience... -
Challenges and coping strategies of orphaned children in Tanzania who are not adequately cared for by adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marguerite Daniel --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, Norway Angela Mathias --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, NorwayOrphaned children in poor rural communities sometimes have no adult who is able to care for them or else the adult caregiver is not able to provide adequate care. Tanzania remains one of the poorest countries in the world, and... -
Junior-headed households as a possible strategy for coping with the growing orphan crisis in northern Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jan Kuhanen Riikka Shemeikka Veijo Notkola Margareth NghixulifwaThis paper reports research concerning junior-headed households among Oshiwambo speakers in north-central Namibia. Based on field interviews with randomly sampled junior heads of households and selected key informants, we outline some features common to the junior-headed households and the ways... -
Gender, famine and HIV/AIDS: rethinking new variant famine in Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Andy GibbsAlthough making a large and rapid impact on our understandings of the interactions between famine and HIV/AIDS, the new variant famine hypothesis has had little critical scrutiny. This paper uses a case study of the Malawian food crisis of 2001/2002... -
How does AIDS illness affect women's residential decisions? Findings from an ethnographic study in a Cape Town township
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Rachel Bray --- Centre for Social Science Research and Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper explores the nature and consequences of residential decision-making for women on treatment for AIDS illness in a poor urban settlement in South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over a two-year period, it points to the subtle shifts... -
Food consumption patterns, diversity of food nutrients and mean nutrient intake in relation to HIV/AIDS status in Kisumu district Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Agatha Christine Onyango --- School of Public Health and Community Development, Kenya Mary Khakoni Walingo --- School of Public Health and Community Development, Kenya Lucas Othuon --- Department of Educational Psychology, KenyaAs the causes and consequences of the AIDS epidemic become clearer, so does the fundamental importance of food and nutritional security for HIV-affected individuals. Even as food insecurity remains a major problem in poor households, its effects are worsened in... -
Reconceptualising hope within the context of vulnerability in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cheryl Wright --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Helen Dunbar-Krige --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Gert van der Westhuizen --- Department of Educational Psychology, South AfricaThis study was aimed at clarifying conceptualisations of hope amongst vulnerable young people in a high HIV/AIDS prevalence South African setting. Participants were four young people ranging from 15 to 19, and interview data were collected on their household conditions,... -
Wastewater and solid waste disposal patterns of Dukem town households in Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: A Mohammed --- Department of Health Studies, Lindiwe Zungu --- Department of Health Studies, M.E. Hoque --- Graduate School of Business and Leadership, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Westville Campus),The objective of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to assess wastewater and solid waste management by the households of Dukem, a town in Ethiopia. A total of 391 households were selected using stratifed random sampling techniques. Face-to-face interviews were carried... -
Effects of rising food prices on household food security on femaleheaded households in Runnymede Village, Mopani District, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: K Mkhawani --- Department of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, South Africa SA Motadi --- Department of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, South Africa NS Mabapa --- Department of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, South Africa XG Mbhenyane --- Division of Human Nutrition, Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, R Blaauw --- Division of Human Nutrition, Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,Background: Rising food prices can have a devastating effect on the health of poor households by making it more difficult for them to afford basic food baskets. Although South Africa is food secure as a nation, it does not mean... -
An analysis of the development influences of the low-income cover market-end in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Bibi. Z. Chummun --- Graduate School of Business, South AfricaThe National Treasury and Financial Services Board in 2011 highlighted the urgent need of an inclusive insurance sector for low-income households known as microinsurance. The ‘insurance gap’ representing many low-income earners who are still uninsured remains a challenge in South... -
Households’ satisfaction with the healthcare services rendered by a ward-based outreach team in Tshwane district, Pretoria, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: AT Masango Makgobela --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa JV Ndimande --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, South Africa G Ogunbanjo --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa T Bongongo --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa SN Nyalunga --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South AfricaIntroduction: Households’ satisfaction is an important and commonly used indicator for measuring quality in health care. An amelioration of primary health care services at the level of households, by utilising community health workers, has led to a good healthcare system... -
Implications of Transforming Household Livelihoods through Villagization in Conserving Forest Resources in Southwest Ethiopia: A Case Study of Mengeshi District, Gambela Region
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: Abera Aba --- Jimma University College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Ethiopia Kaba Urgessa --- Department of Natural Resources Management, Ethiopia Zerihun Kebebew --- Department of Natural Resources Management, EthiopiaVillagization brings scattered households together into a defined area with the aim of transforming living conditions through providing social and economic services. As the forest in Mengeshi district, southwest Ethiopia, has been destroyed through shifting cultivation, the study aims at... -
The impact of educational attainment on household poverty in South Africa: A case study of Limpopo province
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Fru Awah Wanka --- Institute for Social Development, South Africa Ravinder Rena --- NWU Business School, South AfricaThe provision of education in South Africa during the apartheid regime was poor, particularly for the African population and especially those living in the homelands. This has hindered those lacking the required skills from obtaining lucrative employment and earning prospects... -
Clean energy transition in a developing society: Perspectives on the socioeconomic determinants of Solar Home Systems adoption among urban households in southeastern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Edlyne Eze Anugwom --- , Nigeria Kenechukwu Nwakego Anugwom --- , Nigeria Oliver Ifeanyi Eya --- , NigeriaThis study identifies factors that constrain the adoption of clean energy sources by urban households in southeastern Nigeria, using the Solar Home Systems (SHS) as a case study. It is premised on the assumption that adoption of innovation is affected... -
Strategies of coping with the effects of HIV/AIDS in Chinamhora communal lands, Goromonzi rural district, Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Wilberforce Kurevakwesu --- , ZimbabweThis qualitative study assesses the impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural households in Chinamhora communal lands, explores the coping strategies of these rural households and establishes possible interventions towards improving their coping strategies. The study comes at a time when deaths... -
Adoption and impacts of improved beehive technologies in the miombo woodland of Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Nicholaus Musimu Kuboja --- , Tanzania A.C. Isinika --- , Tanzania F.T.M. Kilima --- , TanzaniaThis paper analyzes the adoption and impacts of improved beehives on households’ income using cross-sectional data sourced from a sample of 198 beekeepers in western Tanzania who adopted improved beehives. Propensity score matching and the endogenous switching regression model are... -
Life in a child-headed household: Exploring the quality of life of orphans living in child-headed households in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kudzai Emma Chademana --- , South Africa Brian van Wyk --- , South AfricaThe overwhelming rate of HIV-related mortality in the past decades has eroded traditional safety nets for orphans, of which the extended family is the most critical. This has led to the formation of new household structures, i.e. child- and youth-headed... -
Households’ nonfarm livelihood participation and agricultural inputs investment: Evidence from northern Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Haile Tewele Berhe --- , EthiopiaEvidence shows that nonfarm livelihood activities are an important source of income for rural households and they may interact with farm activities in different ways. This article attempts to examine the investment linkage in which evidence is scarce in the... -
Potential of households’ solar PV consumption in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Silas K. Mulaudzi --- , South Africa Steve Bull --- , UK Rudzani A. Makhado --- , South AfricaEnergy demand and consumption across the world are increasing, putting much pressure on current supply. The solar PV system has become one of the most promising renewable energy technologies. The potential of solar PV differs from one province and household... -
Invisible work: Child work in households with a person living with HIV/AIDS in Central Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Julie Abimanyi-Ochom --- , , Australia Brett Inder --- , , Australia Bruce Hollingsworth --- , , UK Paula Lorgelly --- , , AustraliaBackground: HIV/AIDS has led to increased mortality and morbidity, negatively impacting adult labour especially in HIV/AIDS burdened Sub-Saharan Africa. There has been some exploration of the effects of HIV/AIDS on paid child labour, but little empirical work on children’s non-paid... -
Mobile money and intra-household employment diversification: Empirical evidence from Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Richmond Atta-Ankomah --- University of Ghana, GhanaThis study investigates the effect of mobile money on intra-household employment diversification in Ghana using data from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Surveys. The study relies on several econometric models including instrumental variables and shows that mobile... -
Understanding the factors associated with child malnutrition in rural Burundi: experiences from the Muyinga and Ngozi provinces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Willy Désiré Emera --- Ghent University, Belgium Marijke D’Haese --- Ghent University, Belgium Wannes Slosse --- Ghent University, Belgium Carl Lachat --- Ghent University, Belgium -
The agriculture productivity puzzle: Capital deepening and agricultural productivity in China
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Shigui Du --- Universiti Malaya, Malaysia Angathevar Baskaran --- Universiti Malaya, Malaysia V. G. R. Chandran --- Universiti Malaya, MalaysiaThis study investigates how capital deepening influences agricultural productivity among peasant households in China, considering heterogeneity across household types and regions. Using data from the China Family Panel Survey, we find that land size is negatively associated with land productivity...
