Understanding changes and prospects for community health, agriculture and livelihoods in Zimbabwe : final report, 1 March 2011 - 31 March 2013
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2013-05
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Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, ZW
Abstract
The report describes an extraordinary turning point for a community decimated by HIV/AIDS and economic “structural adjustment.” Changes in domestic and lineage organization connected with and/or rooted in changes in gender relations were a major contributing factor of success. The revolution was facilitated by the extent of the crisis and withdrawal of the dominant discourse associated with the state and modernization, so that farmers could make new choices. Research findings fed into community debates about how they lived, how they might change how they lived, and how they should be represented through the research to the outside world.
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IDRC Final Report
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COMMUNITY HEALTH, ZIMBABWE, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, GENDER ROLES, WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION, WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE, HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES, SOUTH OF SAHARA, WATER HARVESTING, FAMILY SIZE