Admos Chimhowu
Biographic Data
| ID | 149983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Admos Chimhowu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Admos |
| FAMILY NAME | Chimhowu |
| SIGNATURE | CHIMHOWU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2274-4679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Voluntary Local Reviews and the Politics of SDG Localisation in African Cities: Towards a Multi-Level Governance Framework
Attaining Sustainable Development Goals in African Cities: A Systematic Literature Review
African cities are increasingly central to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet evidence on how SDGs are being implemented in urban Africa remains fragmented. This study systematically reviews peer‐reviewed literature on SDG implementation in African cities published between 2017 and 2025. Using PRISMA procedures, 1786 records were identified from Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar, of which 31 articles met the i…
The ‘New’ national development planning and global development goals: Processes and partnerships
The number of countries with a national development plan has more than doubled, from about 62 in 2006 to 134 in 2018. More than 80 per cent of the global population now lives in a country with a national development plan of one form or another. This is a stunning recovery of a practice that had been discredited in the 1980s and 1990s as a relic of directed economies and state-led development. Several factors have fostered this re-emergence but fr…
The ‘new’ African customary land tenure. Characteristic, features and policy implications of a new paradigm
Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure. Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the way such landl is governed. Driven in part by adaptations to changing context but also accelerated by neo-liberal reforms, this shift has created a ‘new’ customary tenure in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews some of the evidence and analyses the ways in which thi…
Forbidden But Not Suppressed: A 'Vernacular' Land Market in Svosve Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
This article examines the status of land tenure in Zimbabwe following the 'Fast Track' land reforms of 2000-3. It finds that post-reform land tenure remains strongly dualist, with land sales and rental prohibited on the land (about two thirds of the total) classified as 'A1' resettlement or 'communal areas', while tradeable leases apply to much of the remainder, classified as 'commercial land'. The article draws on fieldwork in Svosve Communal Ar…
Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: Land Transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe
The idea of communal tenure has formed a key plank in the rural governance of Zimbabwe since independence, but its retention following the Fast Track land reforms of 2000-2002 perpetuates a distinction between 'commercial' land governed by a land market and 'communal' land on which market transactions are illegal. This article draws on recent research in Svosve Communal Area to examine the dynamics of land access and their implications for rural …
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe by Donald S. Moore
Livelihood dynamics in planned and spontaneous resettlement in Zimbabwe: Converging and Vulnerable
Customary vs Private Property Rights? Dynamics and Trajectories of Vernacular Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Contemporary discourse on land in Africa is polarized between advocates of tenure reform through state registration of individual titles to land and others who claim that customary or 'communal' tenure is the only check against landlessness among the poor in the African countryside, and that 'pro-poor' land policy should therefore strengthen customary rights to land. This paper draws on a growing body of evidence on the emergence of vernacular ru…
Vernacular Land Markets and the Changing Face of Customary Land Tenure in Africa
Contemporary discourse on land in Africa suggest that customary or ‘communal’ tenure is the only check against freehold market-induced landlessness among the poor in the African countryside, and that ‘pro-poor’ land policy should therefore strengthen customary rights to land. This article draws on a growing body of evidence on the emergence of vernacular rural land sales and rental markets to question assumptions that underlie the non-market ‘ide…
Extending the Grain Basket to the Margins: Spontaneous Land Resettlement and Changing Livelihoods in the Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe
Spontaneous resettlement in frontier regions of Zimbabwe has been a useful way of getting land on which to begin building a livelihood. Through this process, sparsely populated rural districts skirting the mid-Zambezi Valley have undergone long-term socio-economic change. In a case study of Rengwe in Hurungwe District, the paper shows that households that migrated and spontaneously resettled in Rengwe were able to double arable land-holding while…
Customary vs Private Property Rights? Dynamics and Trajectories of Vernacular Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Contemporary discourse on land in Africa is polarized between advocates of tenure reform through state registration of individual titles to land and others who claim that customary or 'communal' tenure is the only check against landlessness among the poor in the African countryside, and that 'pro-poor' land policy should therefore strengthen customary rights to land. This paper draws on a growing body of evidence on the emergence of vernacular ru…
The ‘new’ African customary land tenure. Characteristic, features and policy implications of a new paradigm
Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure. Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the way such landl is governed. Driven in part by adaptations to changing context but also accelerated by neo-liberal reforms, this shift has created a ‘new’ customary tenure in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews some of the evidence and analyses the ways in which thi…
The ‘New’ national development planning and global development goals: Processes and partnerships
The number of countries with a national development plan has more than doubled, from about 62 in 2006 to 134 in 2018. More than 80 per cent of the global population now lives in a country with a national development plan of one form or another. This is a stunning recovery of a practice that had been discredited in the 1980s and 1990s as a relic of directed economies and state-led development. Several factors have fostered this re-emergence but fr…
Livelihood dynamics in planned and spontaneous resettlement in Zimbabwe: Converging and Vulnerable
Forbidden But Not Suppressed: A 'Vernacular' Land Market in Svosve Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
This article examines the status of land tenure in Zimbabwe following the 'Fast Track' land reforms of 2000-3. It finds that post-reform land tenure remains strongly dualist, with land sales and rental prohibited on the land (about two thirds of the total) classified as 'A1' resettlement or 'communal areas', while tradeable leases apply to much of the remainder, classified as 'commercial land'. The article draws on fieldwork in Svosve Communal Ar…
Vernacular Land Markets and the Changing Face of Customary Land Tenure in Africa
Contemporary discourse on land in Africa suggest that customary or ‘communal’ tenure is the only check against freehold market-induced landlessness among the poor in the African countryside, and that ‘pro-poor’ land policy should therefore strengthen customary rights to land. This article draws on a growing body of evidence on the emergence of vernacular rural land sales and rental markets to question assumptions that underlie the non-market ‘ide…
Extending the Grain Basket to the Margins: Spontaneous Land Resettlement and Changing Livelihoods in the Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe
Spontaneous resettlement in frontier regions of Zimbabwe has been a useful way of getting land on which to begin building a livelihood. Through this process, sparsely populated rural districts skirting the mid-Zambezi Valley have undergone long-term socio-economic change. In a case study of Rengwe in Hurungwe District, the paper shows that households that migrated and spontaneously resettled in Rengwe were able to double arable land-holding while…
Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: Land Transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe
The idea of communal tenure has formed a key plank in the rural governance of Zimbabwe since independence, but its retention following the Fast Track land reforms of 2000-2002 perpetuates a distinction between 'commercial' land governed by a land market and 'communal' land on which market transactions are illegal. This article draws on recent research in Svosve Communal Area to examine the dynamics of land access and their implications for rural …
Extending the Grain Basket to the Margins: Spontaneous Land Resettlement and Changing Livelihoods in the Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe
Spontaneous resettlement in frontier regions of Zimbabwe has been a useful way of getting land on which to begin building a livelihood. Through this process, sparsely populated rural districts skirting the mid-Zambezi Valley have undergone long-term socio-economic change. In a case study of Rengwe in Hurungwe District, the paper shows that households that migrated and spontaneously resettled in Rengwe were able to double arable land-holding while…
Vernacular Land Markets and the Changing Face of Customary Land Tenure in Africa
Contemporary discourse on land in Africa suggest that customary or ‘communal’ tenure is the only check against freehold market-induced landlessness among the poor in the African countryside, and that ‘pro-poor’ land policy should therefore strengthen customary rights to land. This article draws on a growing body of evidence on the emergence of vernacular rural land sales and rental markets to question assumptions that underlie the non-market ‘ide…
Livelihood dynamics in planned and spontaneous resettlement in Zimbabwe: Converging and Vulnerable
Customary vs Private Property Rights? Dynamics and Trajectories of Vernacular Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Contemporary discourse on land in Africa is polarized between advocates of tenure reform through state registration of individual titles to land and others who claim that customary or 'communal' tenure is the only check against landlessness among the poor in the African countryside, and that 'pro-poor' land policy should therefore strengthen customary rights to land. This paper draws on a growing body of evidence on the emergence of vernacular ru…
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe by Donald S. Moore
Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: Land Transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe
The idea of communal tenure has formed a key plank in the rural governance of Zimbabwe since independence, but its retention following the Fast Track land reforms of 2000-2002 perpetuates a distinction between 'commercial' land governed by a land market and 'communal' land on which market transactions are illegal. This article draws on recent research in Svosve Communal Area to examine the dynamics of land access and their implications for rural …
Forbidden But Not Suppressed: A 'Vernacular' Land Market in Svosve Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
This article examines the status of land tenure in Zimbabwe following the 'Fast Track' land reforms of 2000-3. It finds that post-reform land tenure remains strongly dualist, with land sales and rental prohibited on the land (about two thirds of the total) classified as 'A1' resettlement or 'communal areas', while tradeable leases apply to much of the remainder, classified as 'commercial land'. The article draws on fieldwork in Svosve Communal Ar…
The ‘New’ national development planning and global development goals: Processes and partnerships
The number of countries with a national development plan has more than doubled, from about 62 in 2006 to 134 in 2018. More than 80 per cent of the global population now lives in a country with a national development plan of one form or another. This is a stunning recovery of a practice that had been discredited in the 1980s and 1990s as a relic of directed economies and state-led development. Several factors have fostered this re-emergence but fr…
The ‘new’ African customary land tenure. Characteristic, features and policy implications of a new paradigm
Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure. Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the way such landl is governed. Driven in part by adaptations to changing context but also accelerated by neo-liberal reforms, this shift has created a ‘new’ customary tenure in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews some of the evidence and analyses the ways in which thi…
Voluntary Local Reviews and the Politics of SDG Localisation in African Cities: Towards a Multi-Level Governance Framework
Attaining Sustainable Development Goals in African Cities: A Systematic Literature Review
African cities are increasingly central to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet evidence on how SDGs are being implemented in urban Africa remains fragmented. This study systematically reviews peer‐reviewed literature on SDG implementation in African cities published between 2017 and 2025. Using PRISMA procedures, 1786 records were identified from Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar, of which 31 articles met the i…
Economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Customary land (5 works) · Land tenure (5 works)