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Bulletin de la Recherche Agronomique du Bénin Numéro 69 – Juin 2011cope with this situation, they often refer to parents and friends to borrow lands. But, as noticed byMutangadura et al. (1999), the lands they are given are most of the time marginal lands. In addition,Biaou (1996) emphasized that land borrowing as land tenure system is not secure for the borrower,because the land owner can end the contract at any time, especially if he/she gets a betterarrangement (lease or sharecropping systems for example) from someone else. In that case, sale offarm land to borrow from others later is not an efficient and sustainable option for affected households.Unlike to the study of Haddad and Gillespie (2001), this study did not show an explicit abandonment ofgood farming practices. Also, it was observed that affected households were likely to diversify theiractivities. They seem to develop a greater interest for livestock production. Another kind of strategyobserved by Gebresselasie (2008) in Ethiopia is the tendency of the remaining active members of theaffected household to work on others’ farms as laborers in order to get income and supply to theneeds of their households.CONCLUSIONHIV pandemic represents nowadays a significant challenge for the development, because of itsserious effects on all livelihoods assets. In rural zones, it affects household’s available labor, farmedland, yields and income. To mitigate these effects, the affected households did not remain passive.They developed various local responses in order to enhance their farming system and cope with thenew situation. Some of the adjustments they developed weere: the social reorganization of the farmwork, the recourse to hired labor, the favor of home gardens, the diversification of the activities with afocus on livestock production and the borrowing of farm land. Although these local responses enablethe affected households to cope with the situation, they are not actually effective. So, the affectedhouseholds continue to face decreasing agricultural production and income. Then, it is necessary toidentify or develop more appropriate and efficient alternatives, in order to help these households toreach sustainable livelihoods. Such work should be a challenge for agricultural research centers andextension services.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe are grateful to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) which hosted the research.Thanks to Mr. SHITAWA Francis and Mr. KUPABADO Moses Mananyi for their support during thedrafting of this paper. Finally, our thanks go to all people involved in this study and particularly theAIDS-affected households.REFERENCESAdato, M., Meinzen-Dick, R., 2002: Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoodsframework. FNCD Discussion paper 128. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, USA.Agbahey, J. U. I., B. J. Gbaguidi, O. N. Coulialy, G. Biaou, 2011: Impact du VIH/SIDA sur les facteurs de production et lerendement des ménages agricoles au Sud-Bénin. Bulletin de la Recherche Agronomique du Bénin, 69, 17-25.Akrofi, S., P. Struik, L. Price, 2008: Interactive effects of HIV/AIDS and household headship determine home garden diversityin the Eastern Region of Ghana. Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 56(3), 201-217.Asfaw, Z., 2002: Home gardens in Ethiopia: some observations and generalizations. Proceedings of the 2nd InternationalHome Gardens Workshop, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy, 83-96.Biaou, G., 1996 : Etude comparative du fonctionnement du régime foncier dans trois zones agroécologiques du départementdu Mono (République du Bénin). Série d’Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, 1996(2), 6-18.Biaou, G., 1993 : Développement du marché de la terre sur le Plateau Adja (Bénin). Journal of the West African FarmingSystems Network, 3 (2), 54-60.Booysen, F., 2004 : Income and poverty dynamics in HIV/AIDS-affected households in the free province of South-Africa.South African Journal of Economics vol. 72:3, 522-545.CVG (Commission du VIH/SIDA et de la Gouvernance en Afrique), 2004 : Effets du HIV/sida sur les modes de subsistanceet la sécurité alimentaire en milieu rural. Actes de la Réunion interactive en Ethiopie : résultats des travaux. CVG –Commission économique pour l’Afrique, Addis-Abeba, Ethiopie, 1-42.DFID (Department for International Development), 2001: Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets..www.livelihoods.org/info/info_guidanceSheets.html#6Ellis, F., 2000: Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.Gebreselassie, K., L. Price, J. Wesseler, E. Van lerland, 2008: Impact of HIV/AIDS on labour allocation and agrobiodiversitydepend on the stage of the epidemic: case studies in Ethiopia. Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 56(3), 219-240.34