Outcomes Of Post 2000 Fast Track Land Reform In Zimbabwe

Author : Lionel Cliffe,Jocelyn Alexander,Ben Cousins,Rudo Gaidzanwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317981251

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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 : Prosper B. Matondi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Sam Moyo,Walter Chambati
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782869785533

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Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe by Sam Moyo,Walter Chambati Pdf

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme implemented during the 2000s in Zimbabwe represents the only instance of radical redistributive land reforms since the end of the Cold War. It reversed the racially-skewed agrarian structure and discriminatory land tenures inherited from colonial rule. The land reform also radicalised the state towards a nationalist, introverted accumulation strategy, against a broad array of unilateral Western sanctions. Indeed, Zimbabwe's land reform, in its social and political dynamics, must be compared to the leading land reforms of the twentieth century, which include those of Mexico, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Cuba and Mozambique. The fact that the Zimbabwe case has not been recognised as vanguard nationalism has much to do with the 'intellectual structural adjustment' which has accompanied neoliberalism and a hostile media campaign. This has entailed dubious theories of ëneopatrimonialismí, which reduce African politics and the state to endemic ëcorruptioní, ëpatronageí, and ëtribalismí while overstating the virtues of neoliberal good governance. Under this racist repertoire, it has been impossible to see class politics, mass mobilisation and resistance, let alone believe that something progressive can occur in Africa. This book comes to a conclusion that the Zimbabwe land reform represents a new form of resistance with distinct and innovative characteristics when compared to other cases of radicalisation, reform and resistance. The process of reform and resistance has entailed the deliberate creation of a tri-modal agrarian structure to accommodate and balance the interests of various domestic classes, the progressive restructuring of labour relations and agrarian markets, the continuing pressures for radical reforms (through the indigenisation of mining and other sectors), and the rise of extensive, albeit relatively weak, producer cooperative structures. The book also highlights some of the resonances between the Zimbabwean land struggles and those on the continent, as well as in the South in general, arguing that there are some convergences and divergences worthy of intellectual attention. The book thus calls for greater endogenous empirical research which overcomes the pre-occupation with failed interpretations of the nature of the state and agency in Africa.

Author : Medicine Masiiwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000102891383

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Post-independence Land Reform in Zimbabwe by Medicine Masiiwa Pdf

Author : Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Sam Moyo,Kirk Helliker,Tendai Murisa
Publisher : S&s Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civil society
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132906954

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Contested Terrain by Sam Moyo,Kirk Helliker,Tendai Murisa Pdf

Author : Onias Mafa,S. Gudhlanga
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869786707

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Gender, Politics and Land Use in Zimbabwe 19802012 by Onias Mafa,S. Gudhlanga Pdf

The agrarian reform dynamics in southern Africa have to be understood within the framework of colonial land policies and legislation that were designed essentially to expropriate land and natural resource property rights from the indigenous people in favour of the white settlers. Colonial land policies institutionalised racial inequity with regard to land although conditions are not homogeneous there are broad themes that cut across the southern Africa region. Colonialism dispossessed and impoverished the people by taking away the most productive lands. Neoliberal globalization has undermined the peoples wellbeing through direct influences on agriculture and rural economies in conjunction with policies promoted by national governments and international agencies. Another shared feature is to be found in the high rates of unemployment, poor returns to small-scale agriculture, lack of access to social services such as health and education all of which serve to erode existing livelihood activities and perpetuate relative and absolute poverty in rural areas.

Author : Steve Kibble,Paul Vanlerberghe
Publisher : CIIR
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 1852872403

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Land, Power and Poverty by Steve Kibble,Paul Vanlerberghe Pdf

Author : Ian Scoones
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847010245

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Zimbabwe's Land Reform by Ian Scoones Pdf

Challenges the commonly held myths about Zimbabwe's land reform.

Author : Steven Lawry,Rebecca McLain,Margaret Rugadya,Gina Alvarado,Tasha Heidenrich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000907780

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Land Tenure Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa by Steven Lawry,Rebecca McLain,Margaret Rugadya,Gina Alvarado,Tasha Heidenrich Pdf

This book examines the impacts of land tenure reform interventions implemented in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Since 2000, many African countries have introduced programs aimed at providing smallholder farmers with low-cost certificates for land held under customary tenure. Yet there are many contending views and debates on the impact of these land policies and this book reveals how tenure security, agricultural productivity, and social inclusion were affected by the interventions. It analyses the results of carefully selected, authoritative studies on interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe and applies a realist synthesis methodology to explore the socio-political and economic contexts. Drawing on these results, the book argues that inadequate attention paid to the core characteristics of rural social systems obscures the benefits of customary tenure while overlooking the scope for reforms to reduce the gaps in social status among members of customary communities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of land management and use, land and property law, tenure security, agrarian studies, political economy, and sustainable development. It will also appeal to development professionals and policymakers involved in land governance and land policy in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Joseph Hanlon,J. M. Manjengwa,Teresa Smart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 1565495209

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Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land by Joseph Hanlon,J. M. Manjengwa,Teresa Smart Pdf

The news from Zimbabwe is usually unremittingly bleak owing to the success of the Mugabe regime’s control of information and sequestration/elimination of political opponents. Perhaps no issue has aroused such ire as the land reforms Mugabe has implemented, which, according to what journalist reports are available, have largely benefited Mugabe’s cronies. ZimbabweTakes Back it Land, however, offers a much more positive and nuanced assessment of land reform in Zimbabwe, one that counters the dominant narratives of oppression and economic stagnation. While not minimizing the depredations of the Mugabe regime, and admitting that many of Mugabe’s supporters benefited from the dictators largesse, the authors show how ordinary Zimbabweans have taken charge of their destinies in creative and unacknowledged ways through their use of land holdings obtained through Mugabe’s land reform programs. This is an inspiring story of collective agency by the exploited, and how development can take place in even the most hostile of circumstances.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UOM:39015055449956

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Zimbabwe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harel Tanjong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3668337071

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Land Reform In Zimbabwe. Context and Sypnosis by Harel Tanjong Pdf

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Economic Geography, grade: 95.00, course: Geography of Population, language: English, abstract: The land reform policies of the ZANU-PF government have contributed to a substantial downturn in the living standards of the Zimbabwean people.This paper provides historical context of the region's unequal land distribution. Also examined are the ZANU-PF government's' policies and attitudes from its assumption of power in the early 80's through the end of its "Fast Track" reform. The numerous economic effects of land reform, such as the country's collapse in agriculture, drop in living standards, and its notorious hyperinflation, will also be covered.

Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171064575

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Land Reform Under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe by Sam Moyo Pdf

This study represents a first systematic effort to document Zimbabwe "s new land uses during the years of economic crisis, the role of the state in promoting them, the differentiation associated with them, not only between black and white farmers, but also among them, and the implications of all these for the political economy of the Zimbabwean land question. The fact that some of the new land uses avoid redistribution of clearly under-utilised large scale commercial farms suggests that the Zimbabwean land question will remain a live political issue for a long time.

Author : Lionel Cliffe,Jocelyn Alexander,Ben Cousins,Rudo Gaidzanwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.