Simon Manda
Biographic Data
| ID | 150775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Manda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Manda |
| SIGNATURE | MANDA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6064-114X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Politics of Debt Success in Africa and Feminist Political Economy Perspectives in Zambia
This article advances a feminist rethinking of what constitutes “success” in debt politics in Africa, foregrounding gender and justice. Focusing on Zambia, it interrogates the assumptions underpinning debt sustainability processes, drawing on official debt documents, media coverage of government negotiations (n=10), and in-depth interviews with debt justice advocates (n=14). The article shows that dominant political definitions of success priorit…
‘‘This one caught us unaware’
Global debates around increased frequency and intensity of flood disasters habitually return to questions around the responsibility of national states. The visibility of disaster politics and understanding of the policies and legal tools used by different actors during disasters is minimal, serving disaster risk reduction poorly. We examine these elements through a study of disaster responses by state and non-state actors in Malawi, drawing from …
Does value chain inclusiveness increase smallholder resilience during pandemics? Lessons from the Zambia's sugar‐belt
This paper asks whether value chain integration increases smallholder resilience during shocks. Using a qualitative research study design and the test case of the ‘sugar‐belt’ in Zambia, the paper draws on interviews with participants from different stakeholder groups, including household case studies and group discussions. Results show sugarcane value chain integration enhances smallholder livelihood resilience during pandemics through its coord…
People or Property
This open access book examines the use of relocation and resettlement processes in the USA as a means of responding to climate change
Assumptions and understanding of success in home buyout programs
In the US, the role and importance of voluntary buyout and property acquisition programs (buyouts) as a policy tool to relocate property owners out of flood risk riverine and coastal environments has increased since the 1990s, but how federal and other agencies frame success remains less understood. This review paper uses the case of an early implementation of a buyout program that encompassed a portion of Valmeyer to illustrate how success has b…
Inside Zambia's ‘new normal
This paper explores COVID‐19 policy responses and experiences of their impact on food systems and livelihoods, and other factors shaping vulnerability among peri‐urban small‐scale farmers in Zambia. We draw on household surveys and case studies, multi‐level interviews and group discussions to make sense of ‘new normal’ policy (in)action and its (in) effectiveness in shaping peri‐urban production, market linkages and livelihoods during the pandemi…
Covid-19, livelihoods and gender
This study explores material, relational and subjective elements of wellbeing as micro-level gendered impacts of COVID-19 policy responses on agro-based livelihoods. Using a test case of rural Zambia, we apply a mixed methods research design and draw data from household surveys, household case study interviews, group discussions, and multi-level interviews. Results show gendered impacts at four significant levels of granularity: markets and mater…
Can Redd+ projects deliver livelihood benefits in private tenure arrangements? Experiences from rural Zambia
This paper asks whether REDD+ Projects in private tenure arrangements can deliver livelihood benefits and development in rural communities. We draw on a conservancy under two private companies – a landowner and developer – alongside community zones in Zambia to explore how private capital converges in rural geographies, and what local communities make out of this ‘novel’ coordination arrangement. Based on a qualitative study design, we conducted …
Seeing like the state? Customary land pressures and fracturing tenure systems in rural Zambia
This paper explores mechanisms that render different state actors capable of exerting customary land pressures, land grabbing or facilitating conditions for doing so. Specifically, the paper examines provisions state actors rely upon in the acquisition of rural customary land and implications. Using the test case of a rural district of Mafinga in eastern Zambia, we collect qualitative data from policy analysis, multi-level semi-structured intervi…
Is the Longue Durée a Legal Argument
This article investigates whether it is possible to bring the longue durée, or the re-contextualization of risk distribution and accumulation, into litigation about climate outcomes. We do this by analyzing the structure of disaster litigation to identify if and whether historical harm is included in argumentation and by applying the concept of takings to a hypothetical legal argument of repetitive flooding in Alaska. We conclude that invisibilit…
Micro-financial institutions and processes of women empowerment in Zambia
A quantitative understanding of the state and determinants of water-energy-food security in Africa
Sugarcane Commercialization and Gender Experiences in the Zambian “Sweetest Town”
This article explores how sugarcane commercialization impacts gender relations, and processes that shape them, using two differently structured outgrower schemes – a settlement scheme and an European Union-driven block farm in southern Zambia. Results show gendered impacts across the schemes are complex and are shaped by diverse cultural arrangements as micro-processes. Intrahousehold patterns of decision making, land, and labor dynamics reveal t…
Neither sustainable nor inclusive
The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’ underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and use this to assess the cha…
Business ‘Power of Presence’
Sustainable Development Goals have brought optimism around ‘agriculture for development’ but also questioned agribusinesses in sustainable development. This paper assesses how an agribusiness’ power exploits domains to exert control over industry governance. Using interviews and group discussions from three smallholder outgrower schemes under Illovo Sugar Plc in Zambia, the paper demonstrates that corporations can deploy the ‘power of presence’ t…
Outgrower schemes and sugar value-chains in Zambia
Large-scale land acquisitions and institutions
Large-scale land acquisitions (LaSLAs) have been a common feature of neoliberal transformation in which state entities facilitate foreign investments; yet the related governance dynamics remain poorly understood. This paper combines policy analysis and interview data to investigate governance dynamics of LaSLAs and analyses competing authority and power relations among national actors mediating land access for the case of Zambia. Our findings sho…
Outgrower schemes, livelihoods and response pathways on the Zambian ‘sugarbelt’
Large-scale land acquisitions and institutions
Large-scale land acquisitions (LaSLAs) have been a common feature of neoliberal transformation in which state entities facilitate foreign investments; yet the related governance dynamics remain poorly understood. This paper combines policy analysis and interview data to investigate governance dynamics of LaSLAs and analyses competing authority and power relations among national actors mediating land access for the case of Zambia. Our findings sho…
Outgrower schemes and sugar value-chains in Zambia
Outgrower schemes, livelihoods and response pathways on the Zambian ‘sugarbelt’
Sugarcane Commercialization and Gender Experiences in the Zambian “Sweetest Town”
This article explores how sugarcane commercialization impacts gender relations, and processes that shape them, using two differently structured outgrower schemes – a settlement scheme and an European Union-driven block farm in southern Zambia. Results show gendered impacts across the schemes are complex and are shaped by diverse cultural arrangements as micro-processes. Intrahousehold patterns of decision making, land, and labor dynamics reveal t…
Neither sustainable nor inclusive
The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’ underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and use this to assess the cha…
Can Redd+ projects deliver livelihood benefits in private tenure arrangements? Experiences from rural Zambia
This paper asks whether REDD+ Projects in private tenure arrangements can deliver livelihood benefits and development in rural communities. We draw on a conservancy under two private companies – a landowner and developer – alongside community zones in Zambia to explore how private capital converges in rural geographies, and what local communities make out of this ‘novel’ coordination arrangement. Based on a qualitative study design, we conducted …
A quantitative understanding of the state and determinants of water-energy-food security in Africa
Outgrower schemes, livelihoods and response pathways on the Zambian ‘sugarbelt’
Large-scale land acquisitions and institutions
Large-scale land acquisitions (LaSLAs) have been a common feature of neoliberal transformation in which state entities facilitate foreign investments; yet the related governance dynamics remain poorly understood. This paper combines policy analysis and interview data to investigate governance dynamics of LaSLAs and analyses competing authority and power relations among national actors mediating land access for the case of Zambia. Our findings sho…
Business ‘Power of Presence’
Sustainable Development Goals have brought optimism around ‘agriculture for development’ but also questioned agribusinesses in sustainable development. This paper assesses how an agribusiness’ power exploits domains to exert control over industry governance. Using interviews and group discussions from three smallholder outgrower schemes under Illovo Sugar Plc in Zambia, the paper demonstrates that corporations can deploy the ‘power of presence’ t…
Outgrower schemes and sugar value-chains in Zambia
Neither sustainable nor inclusive
The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’ underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and use this to assess the cha…
Is the Longue Durée a Legal Argument
This article investigates whether it is possible to bring the longue durée, or the re-contextualization of risk distribution and accumulation, into litigation about climate outcomes. We do this by analyzing the structure of disaster litigation to identify if and whether historical harm is included in argumentation and by applying the concept of takings to a hypothetical legal argument of repetitive flooding in Alaska. We conclude that invisibilit…
Micro-financial institutions and processes of women empowerment in Zambia
A quantitative understanding of the state and determinants of water-energy-food security in Africa
Sugarcane Commercialization and Gender Experiences in the Zambian “Sweetest Town”
This article explores how sugarcane commercialization impacts gender relations, and processes that shape them, using two differently structured outgrower schemes – a settlement scheme and an European Union-driven block farm in southern Zambia. Results show gendered impacts across the schemes are complex and are shaped by diverse cultural arrangements as micro-processes. Intrahousehold patterns of decision making, land, and labor dynamics reveal t…
Assumptions and understanding of success in home buyout programs
In the US, the role and importance of voluntary buyout and property acquisition programs (buyouts) as a policy tool to relocate property owners out of flood risk riverine and coastal environments has increased since the 1990s, but how federal and other agencies frame success remains less understood. This review paper uses the case of an early implementation of a buyout program that encompassed a portion of Valmeyer to illustrate how success has b…
Inside Zambia's ‘new normal
This paper explores COVID‐19 policy responses and experiences of their impact on food systems and livelihoods, and other factors shaping vulnerability among peri‐urban small‐scale farmers in Zambia. We draw on household surveys and case studies, multi‐level interviews and group discussions to make sense of ‘new normal’ policy (in)action and its (in) effectiveness in shaping peri‐urban production, market linkages and livelihoods during the pandemi…
Covid-19, livelihoods and gender
This study explores material, relational and subjective elements of wellbeing as micro-level gendered impacts of COVID-19 policy responses on agro-based livelihoods. Using a test case of rural Zambia, we apply a mixed methods research design and draw data from household surveys, household case study interviews, group discussions, and multi-level interviews. Results show gendered impacts at four significant levels of granularity: markets and mater…
Can Redd+ projects deliver livelihood benefits in private tenure arrangements? Experiences from rural Zambia
This paper asks whether REDD+ Projects in private tenure arrangements can deliver livelihood benefits and development in rural communities. We draw on a conservancy under two private companies – a landowner and developer – alongside community zones in Zambia to explore how private capital converges in rural geographies, and what local communities make out of this ‘novel’ coordination arrangement. Based on a qualitative study design, we conducted …
Seeing like the state? Customary land pressures and fracturing tenure systems in rural Zambia
This paper explores mechanisms that render different state actors capable of exerting customary land pressures, land grabbing or facilitating conditions for doing so. Specifically, the paper examines provisions state actors rely upon in the acquisition of rural customary land and implications. Using the test case of a rural district of Mafinga in eastern Zambia, we collect qualitative data from policy analysis, multi-level semi-structured intervi…
Does value chain inclusiveness increase smallholder resilience during pandemics? Lessons from the Zambia's sugar‐belt
This paper asks whether value chain integration increases smallholder resilience during shocks. Using a qualitative research study design and the test case of the ‘sugar‐belt’ in Zambia, the paper draws on interviews with participants from different stakeholder groups, including household case studies and group discussions. Results show sugarcane value chain integration enhances smallholder livelihood resilience during pandemics through its coord…
People or Property
This open access book examines the use of relocation and resettlement processes in the USA as a means of responding to climate change
‘‘This one caught us unaware’
Global debates around increased frequency and intensity of flood disasters habitually return to questions around the responsibility of national states. The visibility of disaster politics and understanding of the policies and legal tools used by different actors during disasters is minimal, serving disaster risk reduction poorly. We examine these elements through a study of disaster responses by state and non-state actors in Malawi, drawing from …
Politics of Debt Success in Africa and Feminist Political Economy Perspectives in Zambia
This article advances a feminist rethinking of what constitutes “success” in debt politics in Africa, foregrounding gender and justice. Focusing on Zambia, it interrogates the assumptions underpinning debt sustainability processes, drawing on official debt documents, media coverage of government negotiations (n=10), and in-depth interviews with debt justice advocates (n=14). The article shows that dominant political definitions of success priorit…
Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Livelihood (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works)