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Home > Vol 56, No 3 (2008)

Welcome to the website of NJAS-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, a journal issued by KLV.
This journal provides a platform for scientific papers on agriculture in the broadest sense.
NJAS offers new research results of disciplinary as well as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies in:
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Plant Sciences
• Agrobiotechnology
• Animal Sciences
• Environmental Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Food Sciences
• Nutrition and Health
The emphasis is on interaction between natural and social sciences and on system approaches.
We welcome comments, suggestions and - most of all - manuscripts.
The impactfactor is 1.020 according to Journal Citation Report 2005.
The editors
P.C. Struik and J.F. Wienk

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Vol 56, No 3 (2008)

Table of Contents

Articles

Etic and emic perspectives on HIV/AIDS impacts on rural livelihoods and agricultural practice in Sub-Saharan Africa	Abstract
Anke Niehof, Lisa L. Price	139-153

The role of the agricultural sector in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa	Abstract
E.S. Wiegers	155-166

An ethnographic exploration of the impacts of HIV/AIDS on soil fertility management among smallholders in Butula, western Kenya	Abstract
M. Misiko	176-177

Effects of HIV/AIDS on the livelihood of banana-farming households in Central Kenya	Abstract
F.N. Nguthi, A. Niehof	179-190

Ethno-cognitive connections between HIV/AIDS and banana plants in the Bahaya agricultural society in north-western Tanzania	Abstract
V. Githinji	191-200

Interactive effects of HIV/AIDS and household headship determine home garden diversity in the Eastern Region of Ghana	Abstract
S. Akrofi, P.C. Struik, L.L. Price	201-217

Impacts of HIV/AIDS on labour allocation and agrobiodiversity depend on the stage of the epidemic: case studies in Ethiopia	Abstract
K. Gebreselassie, L.L. Price, J. Wesseler, E.C. van Ierland	219-240

HIV/AIDS orphans as farmers: uncovering pest knowledge differences through an ethnobiological approach in Benin	Abstract
R. Fagbemissi, L.L. Price	241-259

The impact on orchid species abundance of gathering their edible tubers by HIV/AIDS orphans: a case of three villages in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania	Abstract
J.F.X. Challe, P.C. Struik	261-279