Adult mortality, food security and the use of wild natural resources in a rural district of South Africa: Exploring the environmental dimensions of AIDS?

AIDS and Rural Livelihoods: Dynamics and Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 153-170

  Twine, Wayne ^a   Hunter, Lori M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 85134274822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849775779-10     Document Type: Chapter

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