Conflicts Over Land And Other Natural Resources In Zimbabwe

Author : Joshua Matanzima,Patience Chadambuka,Kirk Helliker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1032543981

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Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Rural Zimbabwe by Joshua Matanzima,Patience Chadambuka,Kirk Helliker Pdf

"This book investigates the range of conflicts over land and other natural resources in contemporary Zimbabwe, considering the different forms these conflicts take, and the ensuing outcomes. Zimbabwe is a country rich in natural resources, including land, wildlife, minerals, and water resources. These resources are integral to the formal and informal livelihoods of most Zimbabweans, as well as supporting many key industries. Wildlife, land, and water resources are also embedded in indigenous knowledge systems, religious beliefs and rituals in many rural communities, forming an important part of people's identity and sense of belonging. However, this book demonstrates the ways in which rural communities are being denied access to these resources and being displaced by extractive companies and by the government. Their response is often to turn to violence to try to reclaim their lands. Drawing on original empirical research from different conflicts across Zimbabwe, the book also considers the issue in the context of problems such as climate change, human wildlife conflicts, and politico-economic crises. This book will be useful to policy makers, students, conservationists, and academics across the fields of sociology, human geography, development, political science, and environment studies"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474865145

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Conflicts Over Land and Other Natural Resources in Zimbabwe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joshua Matanzima,Patience Chadambuka,Kirk Helliker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040102893

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Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Rural Zimbabwe by Joshua Matanzima,Patience Chadambuka,Kirk Helliker Pdf

This book investigates the range of conflicts over land and other natural resources in contemporary Zimbabwe, considering the different forms these conflicts take, and the ensuing outcomes. Zimbabwe is a country rich in natural resources, including land, wildlife, minerals, and water resources. These resources are integral to the formal and informal livelihoods of most Zimbabweans, as well as supporting many key industries. Wildlife, land, and water resources are also embedded in indigenous knowledge systems, religious beliefs, and rituals in many rural communities, forming an important part of people’s identity and sense of belonging. However, this book demonstrates the ways in which rural communities are being denied access to these resources and being displaced by extractive companies and the government. Their response is often to turn to violence to try to reclaim their lands. Drawing on original empirical research from different conflicts across Zimbabwe, the book also considers the issue in the context of problems such as climate change, human-wildlife conflicts, and politico-economic crises. This book will be useful to policy makers, students, conservationists, and academics across the fields of sociology, human geography, development, political science, and environment studies.

Author : N. Marongwe
Publisher : Zero
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112235184

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Conflicts Over Land and Other Natural Resources in Zimbabwe by N. Marongwe Pdf

Author : William Derman,Rie Odgaard,Espen Sjaastad
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015074272561

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Conflicts Over Land & Water in Africa by William Derman,Rie Odgaard,Espen Sjaastad Pdf

This is an examination of the broader context for the re-emergence of land reform and resource conflicts in Africa. Efforts to change the race based systems of land ownership and land tenure in Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe have pushed land issues to the forefront of social and economic discourses in Africa. This collection examines the broader context for the re- emergence of land reform and resource conflicts.

Author : Abiodun Alao
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1580462677

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Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa by Abiodun Alao Pdf

The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.

Author : Abiodun Alao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1580465420

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Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa by Abiodun Alao Pdf

The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.

Author : Bill Derman,Randi Kaarhus
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781779222343

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In the Shadow of a Conflict by Bill Derman,Randi Kaarhus Pdf

Zimbabwe has cast a powerful regional and international shadow since it became independent in 1980 and more recently, through the crises of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The 2000s were a decade of combined political, economic and social crises in Zimbabwe following what had been a relatively successful twenty years of independence since 1980. The scale, depth and severity of the crises evolving since 2000 have been as dramatic as they have been unexpected. While there has been substantial coverage of the internal consequences of Zimbabwe's crises less attention has been paid to its regional and cross-border consequences. In explaining the ongoing processes stemming from the crises, this book looks at three neighboring countries - Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia - to depict how, over time, they have experienced and interpreted events in Zimbabwe, how they have dealt with Zimbabweans entering their territories, and how they have or have not formulated policies and developed practices to cope with the arrival of new and mainly undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants.

Author : Regis Musavengane,Llewellyn Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000585353

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Conservation, Land Conflicts and Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa by Regis Musavengane,Llewellyn Leonard Pdf

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution, and redistribution. While Southern Africa is home to important biodiversity, pristine woodlands, and grasslands, and is a habitat for important wildlife species, it is also a land of contestations over its natural resources with a complex historical legacy and a wide variety of competing and conflicting issues surrounding race, cultural and traditional practices, and neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from conservation, environmental, and tourism experts, this volume presents the nexus between land conflicts and conservation in the region. The chapters reveal the hegemony of humans on land and associated resources including wildlife and minerals. By using social science approaches, the book unites environmental, scientific, social, and political issues, as it is imperative we understand the holistic nature of land conflicts in nature-based tourism. Discussing the management theories and approaches to community-based tourism in communities where there are or were land conflicts is critical to understanding the current state and future of tourism in African rural spaces. This volume determines the extent to which land reform impacts community-based tourism in Africa to develop resilient destination strategies and shares solutions to existing land conflicts to promote conservation and nature-based tourism. The book will be of great interest to students, academics, development experts, and policymakers in the field of conservation, tourism geography, sociology, development studies, land use, and environmental management and African studies.

Author : R. Jeffery,B. Vira
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780230596610

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Conflict and Cooperation in Participating Natural Resource Management by R. Jeffery,B. Vira Pdf

Over the past one hundred years in particular, there has been a steady process by which natural resources (such as ground-water, forests, fishing grounds and grazing land) have been increasingly managed by centralised institutions. Governments and other national agencies have argued that this promotes efficiency, equity, and other wide national goals. Recently this orthodoxy has been challenged by rising numbers of experiments that show how centralised management tends to fail. Global, national and local goals are more likely to be met, at lower cost and with other benefits (such as promoting better democratic institutions) by involving local populations in collaborative management agreements. This volume, based on detailed case studies from around the world, subjects some of these experiments to critical study, and suggests limits to the participative approach as well as ways it can be improved and made suitable for new contexts.

Author : Prosper B. Matondi
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780321516

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Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform by Prosper B. Matondi Pdf

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets and processes. The reality, however, is altogether more complex. Providing new and much-needed empirical research, this in-depth book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure, have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform programme has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe’s agriculture and development. Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.

Author : Prosper B. Matondi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780321509

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Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform by Prosper B. Matondi Pdf

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets and processes. The reality, however, is altogether more complex. Providing new and much-needed empirical research, this in-depth book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure, have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform programme has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe's agriculture and development. Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.

Author : Lionel Cliffe,Jocelyn Alexander,Ben Cousins,Rudo Gaidzanwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317981268

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Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe by Lionel Cliffe,Jocelyn Alexander,Ben Cousins,Rudo Gaidzanwa Pdf

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the land was the focus of the African war of liberation war, and was partially modified following Independence in 1980. A dramatic further episode in this history was launched at the start of the last decade with the occupation of many farms by groups of African veterans of the liberation struggle and their supporters, which was then institutionalised by legislation to take over most of the large commercial farms for sub-division. Sustained fieldwork over the intervening years, by teams of scholars and experts, and by individual researchers is now generating an array of evidence-based findings of the outcomes: how land was acquired and disposed of; how it has been used; how far new farmers have carved out new livelihoods and viable new communities; the major political and economic problems they and other stakeholders such as former farm-workers, commercial farmers, and the overall rural society now face. This book will be an essential starting place for analysts, policy-makers, historians and activists seeking to understand what has happened and to spotlight the key issues for the next decade. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030663483

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Fast Track Land Occupations in Zimbabwe by Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe Pdf

This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state’s fast track land reform programme. In an innovative way, it highlights the decentralized character of the occupations by recognizing significant spatial variation around a number of key themes, including historical memory, modes of mobilization and gender. A case study of the land occupations in Mashonaland Central Province, based on original research, adds empirical weight to the argument. In further identifying and understanding the specificities and complexities of the land occupations, the book also frames them by way of a nuanced comparative-historical analysis of the three zvimurenga. It thus examines the land occupations (referred to, likely controversially, as the ‘third chimurenga’) with reference to the original anti-colonial revolt from the 1890s (the first chimurenga) and the war of liberation in the 1970s (the second chimurenga). Further, the book engages critically with the ruling party’s chimurenga narrative and the hegemonic understanding of the land occupations within Zimbabwean studies. This book is a crucial read for all scholars and students of post-2000 land and politics in Zimbabwe, but also for those more broadly interested in historical-comparative analyses of land struggles in Zimbabwe and beyond.

Author : Suzanne Dansereau,Mario Zamponi
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Zimbabwe
ISBN : 9171065415

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Zimbabwe by Suzanne Dansereau,Mario Zamponi Pdf

The two articles are revised versions of papers presented at the end of May 2004 to a Zimbabwe Conference at the Nordic Africa Institute, which was co-organized by the project "Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa" (LiDeSA). They highlight current socio-economic aspects of Zimbabwean society. By doing so, they raise relevant issues, yet ones that have tended to be neglected given the almost exclusive concentration on political events. While this is understandable, the articles fill the gap in our knowledge and add insights into important sectors of society. These include information on the Zimbabwean economy and the present constraints of the decline, which together help us to understand the structural legacy that any future government will have to deal with. What is more, the elections in Zimbabwe in 2005 provide an ideal moment to discuss such matters. This Discussion Paper will thereby make a substantive contribution to the analysis of the overall picture in Zimbabwe.