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Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
Duration: April 2007 - April 2009

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Professor Nicola Ansell Professor Nicola Ansell
Professor - Human Geography
(Principal investigator)
T: +44 (0)1895 266085
E: nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266085 nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk Marie Jahoda 204

Outputs

Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., Ansell, N., Mwathunga, E., Robson, E. and Hlabana, T. (2024) 'Stuck in loops: Re-conceptualising rural young people’s livelihood trajectories in contexts of poverty'. Development and Change. ISSN: 0012-155X Open Access Link

Journal article

Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Robson, E. (2017) '‘My happiest time’ or ‘my saddest time’? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43 (2). pp. 184 - 199. ISSN: 0020-2754 Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Robson, E. (2017) 'Fears for the Future: The Incommensurability of Securitisation and In/securities among Southern African Youth'. Social and Cultural Geography, 20 (4). pp. 507 - 533. ISSN: 1464-9365 Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Robson, E. (2016) 'AIDS-affected young people’s access to livelihood assets: Exploring ‘new variant famine’ in rural southern Africa'. Journal of Rural Studies, 46. pp. 23 - 34. ISSN: 0743-0167 Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Robson, E. (2013) 'Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: Exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS-affected southern Africa'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39 (3). pp. 387 - 401. ISSN: 0020-2754 Open Access Link

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Hajdu, F., Ansell, N., Robson, E. and Van Blerk, L. (2013) 'Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern Africa: The limitations of targeting policies'. International Development Planning Review, 35 (2). pp. 155 - 174. ISSN: 1474-6743 Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Robson, E., Hajdu, F. and van Blerk, L. (2012) 'Learning from young people about their lives: Using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa'. Children's Geographies, 10 (2). pp. 169 - 186. ISSN: 1473-3285 Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., van Blerk, L., Robson, E. and Hajdu, F. (2012) 'The spatial construction of young people's livelihoods in rural southern Africa'. Geography, 97 (3). pp. 135 - 140. ISSN: 0016-7487 Open Access Link

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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'. Geographical Journal, 177 (3). pp. 251 - 263. ISSN: 0016-7398 Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Robson, E., van Blerk, L. and Hajdu, F. (2011) 'Spaces, times, and critical moments: A relational time - space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho'. Environment and Planning A, 43 (3). pp. 525 - 544. ISSN: 0308-518X Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Robson, E., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Chipeta, L. (2009) 'The new variant famine hypothesis: moving beyond the household in exploring links between AIDS and food insecurity in southern Africa'. Progress in Development Studies, 9 (3). pp. 187 - 207. ISSN: 1464-9934 Open Access Link

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Hadju, F., Ansell, N., Robson, E., van Blerk, L. and Chipeta, L. (2009) 'Socio-economic causes of food insecurity in Malawi'. Society of Malawi Journal, 62 (2). pp. 6 - 18.Open Access Link

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van Blerk, L., Ansell, N., Robson, E., Hadju, F. and Chipeta, L. (2008) 'Youth, AIDS and rural livelihoods in southern Africa'. Geography Compass, 2 (3). pp. 709 - 727. ISSN: 1749-8198 Open Access Link

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Robson, E., Ansell, N., van Blerk, L., Chipeta, L. and Hajdu, F. (2007) 'AIDS and food insecurity: ‘New variant famine’ in Malawi?'. Malawi Medical Journal, 19 (4). pp. 136 - 137. ISSN: 1995-7262 Open Access Link

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