التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
HIV/AIDS orphans as farmers: uncovering pest knowledge differences through an ethnobiological approach in Benin |
| المؤلفون: |
R.C. Fagbémissi, Lisa L. Price |
| المصدر: |
NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 56(3), 241-259
NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 56 (2008) 3 |
| بيانات النشر: |
Elsevier BV, 2008. |
| سنة النشر: |
2008 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Observation skills, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Communication Science, Sociology of Consumption and Households, Plant Science, CERES, Development, Free listing, medicine.disease_cause, Indigenous, Age and gender, Utility, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), medicine, Socioeconomics, Household, Cultural salience, Language, language, Communicatiewetenschap, Salience (language), cultural salience, business.industry, observation skills, Cognition, medicine.disease, household, free listing, Sociologie van Consumptie en Huishoudens, utility, Agriculture, Animal Science and Zoology, Psychology, business, Agronomy and Crop Science, Food Science |
| الوصف: |
The erosion of local/indigenous farming knowledge in the face of HIV/AIDS deaths in Africa has been noted as a point of concern in the literature and by organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. These concerns are about a break in the transmission of knowledge from adults (deceased parents) to children (orphans). Ultimately, erosion of farming knowledge is implied. This paper examines one aspect of knowledge, using an ethnobiological approach that is language based. Free-listing elicitation of pests in maize fields was conducted with 45 child orphans, 15 non-orphan children, and 30 adults in rural Benin. A cognitive salience index (CSI) was developed and an advanced analysis of the CSI scores was conducted examining the score differences between child orphans and non-orphan children and adults. The results indicate that orphaned children were more knowledgeable than non-orphaned children. One-parent orphans residing with the surviving parent are more knowledgeable than double orphans farming on their own. Non-affected adults and their children scored significantly lower than AIDS-affected adults and children. Other variables including gender and age were further examined to explain some of the observed differences. The findings indicate that there is a need for rethinking the implications of HIV/AIDS on farming knowledge. |
| وصف الملف: |
application/octet-stream; application/pdf |
| تدمد: |
1573-5214 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/s1573-5214(08)80010-3 |
| URL الوصول: |
https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::039c53c57e51d85cb30ab0cb5cd5cec5 |
| Rights: |
OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsair.doi.dedup.....039c53c57e51d85cb30ab0cb5cd5cec5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
OpenAIRE |