AIDS is ravaging agriculture in Africa.* Scientists report that AIDS is ravaging agriculture in Africa as fewer, less nutritious nutritious /nu·tri·tious/ (noo-trish´us) affording nourishment. nu·tri·tious adj. Providing nourishment; nourishing. nutritious affording nourishment. , and less profitable crops are being planted. Less labor-intensive crops like maize maize: see corn. are replacing cash crops such as coffee. With 30 to 40 percent of the adult South African population HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. positive, there are fewer and unhealthier people to work the fields. In Kenya, areas of cultivated land have dropped by 68 percent. In Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (burkē`nə fä`sō), republic (2005 est. pop. 13,925,000), 105,869 sq mi (274,200 sq km), W Africa. It borders on Mali in the west and north, on Niger in the northeast, on Benin in the southeast, and on Togo, Ghana, and , 20 percent of rural families have reduced their agricultural work or abandoned family farms altogether. Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist. |
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