African Women Leaders in Agriculture and the Environment - ISSN 1575-2474

The abbreviation after which the series is named stands for: African Women Leadership in Agriculture and Environment. AWLAE is a Nairobi-based pan-African non-governmental organization, founded by Winrock International. It is now an independent NGO called AWLAE-net. AWLAE and Wageningen University became partners in a project to train 20 women scholars from 11 African countries to do their PhD at Wageningen University. The project started in 2003 and will end in 2010. It is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The research undertaken in the project comprises of themes that relate to the role of women in food and livelihood systems in sub-Saharan Africa. The consequences of HIV/AIDS for women in their roles as food producers in agriculture, income earners and food providers in rural households and care givers in households afflicted by HIV/AIDS are explored. Although the actual topics of research and the disciplinary backgrounds of the scholars vary, gender and food are focal themes in all AWLAE PhD projects. HIV/AIDS plays a greater or lesser role in the research, depending on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the country and area where the research was carried out. The books in the series testify to the importance of the contribution of women to rural livelihood systems in food security and show the diverse and sometimes devastating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural households and communities in sub-Saharan Africa. All except the first three books in the series, which are review studies on the subject, are based on thorough and recently conducted fieldwork.

Anke Niehof
AWLAE Project coordinator for Wageningen University

	Gender, AIDS and food security Mariame Maiga
	Intrahousehold resource allocation and well-being Fatimata Dia Sow
	Single women, land and livelihood vulnerability in a communal area in Zimbabwe Gaynor Gamuchirai Makura-Paradza
	Efficacy of micro-financing women's activities in Côte d'Ivoire Namizata Binaté Fofana
	Adoption of agricultural innovations by smallholder farmers in the context of HIV/AIDS Faith N. Nguthi
	Living with AIDS in Uganda Monica Karuhanga Beraho
	When AIDS meets poverty Carolyne I. Nombo
	The combat for gender equality in education Doris Muhwezi Kakuru
	HIV/AIDS and human development in sub-Saharan Africa Tanja R. Müller
	HIV/AIDS, gender and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa Tanja R. Müller
	HIV/AIDS and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa 1 Tanja R. Müller