Using household data from Northern Zambia, this article looks at HIV/AIDS impacts on different aspects of people's access to food. The findings draw particular attention to the variances in vulnerability among households burdened by illness and orphans that are headed by men, women and the...

The aim of this paper is to apply exploratory techniques in order to uncover vulnerability dimensions that characterize clusters of households within the Zambian dataset. Specifically, our purpose was to discover latent factors and to build a typology of households according to the...