Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45075 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2008/49
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
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.
Subjects: 
labour migration
HIV risk behaviour
agriculture
health
semi-arid tropics
JEL: 
I19
O5
Q19
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-097-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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