Freedom Mazwi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1744374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Freedom Mazwi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Freedom |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazwi |
| SIGNATURE | MAZWI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7100-1287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Challenging ‘conventional agriculture’
This article analyses the emergence and evolution of the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers’ Forum (ZIMSOFF) as a social movement organisation, focusing on factors which have enabled and hindered ZIMSOFF to meaningfully influence the trajectory of agrarian change in Zimbabwe. While in its early stages ZIMSOFF was heavily shaped by a non-governmental organisation (NGO), it later embarked on a path towards greater autonomy which it still retains,…
Diversification of sugar production in Zimbabwe
This article analyses the implications of the diversification of the sugar production occasioned by the land redistribution implemented in Zimbabwe since 2000 on wealth accumulation by sugar outgrowers. While the extensive land reforms altered the national agrarian structure it also widened participation in sugar production as more than 1,000 black land recipients were integrated as outgrowers of transnational capital. This study shows that wealt…
Chinese Investment in Africa
Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture
This article examines the impacts of Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture (CA) program, a state-driven cereal production model implemented since 2016. In the context of the neglect of cereal crops by African states generally under the accumulation strategies of international and domestic capital, and in the face of persisting neoliberal strategies led by international agencies such as the World Bank, the Zimbabwe experience continues to provide insight…
The impact of migratory practices on food security and asset accumulation in Zimbabwe
Debates about the capacity of migratory remittances to enhance food security abound. This article examines the impact of remittances in shaping agricultural production and asset accumulation patterns in Zimbabwe. Using empirical evidence drawn from a sample of 1,090 households and anchored in a political economy conceptual framework, we posit that remittances do not automatically stimulate food security and asset accumulation. Massive deteriorati…
The Land Belongs to Us
Zimbabwe's radical Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), implemented in 2000, diversified the agrarian structure by replacing a few large commercial farms with many smaller-scale farms. In understanding how the allocations evolved, studies have emphasized the effects of class, political party affiliation, gender, citizenship, and generation. However, the influence of ethno-regionalism or ethnicity on land access has been understudied. This ar…
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco
Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform programme has led to the adoption of new patterns of land use by its beneficiaries. Tobacco farming is a case in point. By virtue of the crop’s export viability and driven by changes in land tenure brought about by the reform, investors and resettled farmers are entering into a new generation of land leases and joint-venture agreements. To varying degrees, these agreements are attempts by resettled farmers to mob…
Plants will miss your Shade / Huge Loss
Revisiting the Trimodal Agrarian Structure as a Social Differentiation Analysis Framework in Zimbabwe
The study of social differentiation in the countryside is often dominated by the deployment of classical analytical frameworks. This article quantitatively explores social differentiation at the sub-national level (Chiredzi and Zvimba districts in Zimbabwe), through the use of the trimodal agrarian structure (TMAS) framework. It addresses the question of whether variables outlined in TMAS (land sizes, labor, and credit) stimulate social different…
Sugar production dynamics in Zimbabwe
This article examines the nature of contractual relations between sugar outgrowers (contract farmers) and Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ). Drawing from a research study conducted at Hippo Valley Estate, using a mixed-methods approach, findings reveal asymmetrical power relations in favour of THZ as reflected by its domination in price determination, monopsony control and risk sharing. Despite radicalisation and attempts by the state to curb the pow…
Tobacco contract farming in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme resulted in a massive growth of the country's tobacco sector. Some authors have labelled this, the ‘tobacco boom’. The effects of this growth are variegated across space and time. This study explores the growth of tobacco contract farming in Goromonzi and Zvimba districts and the resultant effects on land use patterns, accumulation, power dynamics and livelihood outcomes. In illuminating on contract far…
Political Economy of Command Agriculture in Zimbabwe
After the withdrawal of agrarian capital from financing agriculture in the context of a backlash following the implementation radical land redistribution and tenure reforms since 2000, the fiscally constrained Zimbabwean state assumed an enlarged role in funding production, especially of food grains. Various input subsidy programs were initiated by state and donor agencies to plug the challenges faced by farmers in accessing expensive agricultura…
Tobacco contract farming in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme resulted in a massive growth of the country's tobacco sector. Some authors have labelled this, the ‘tobacco boom’. The effects of this growth are variegated across space and time. This study explores the growth of tobacco contract farming in Goromonzi and Zvimba districts and the resultant effects on land use patterns, accumulation, power dynamics and livelihood outcomes. In illuminating on contract far…
Sugar production dynamics in Zimbabwe
This article examines the nature of contractual relations between sugar outgrowers (contract farmers) and Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ). Drawing from a research study conducted at Hippo Valley Estate, using a mixed-methods approach, findings reveal asymmetrical power relations in favour of THZ as reflected by its domination in price determination, monopsony control and risk sharing. Despite radicalisation and attempts by the state to curb the pow…
Political Economy of Command Agriculture in Zimbabwe
After the withdrawal of agrarian capital from financing agriculture in the context of a backlash following the implementation radical land redistribution and tenure reforms since 2000, the fiscally constrained Zimbabwean state assumed an enlarged role in funding production, especially of food grains. Various input subsidy programs were initiated by state and donor agencies to plug the challenges faced by farmers in accessing expensive agricultura…
The Land Belongs to Us
Zimbabwe's radical Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), implemented in 2000, diversified the agrarian structure by replacing a few large commercial farms with many smaller-scale farms. In understanding how the allocations evolved, studies have emphasized the effects of class, political party affiliation, gender, citizenship, and generation. However, the influence of ethno-regionalism or ethnicity on land access has been understudied. This ar…
Diversification of sugar production in Zimbabwe
This article analyses the implications of the diversification of the sugar production occasioned by the land redistribution implemented in Zimbabwe since 2000 on wealth accumulation by sugar outgrowers. While the extensive land reforms altered the national agrarian structure it also widened participation in sugar production as more than 1,000 black land recipients were integrated as outgrowers of transnational capital. This study shows that wealt…
Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture
This article examines the impacts of Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture (CA) program, a state-driven cereal production model implemented since 2016. In the context of the neglect of cereal crops by African states generally under the accumulation strategies of international and domestic capital, and in the face of persisting neoliberal strategies led by international agencies such as the World Bank, the Zimbabwe experience continues to provide insight…
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco
Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform programme has led to the adoption of new patterns of land use by its beneficiaries. Tobacco farming is a case in point. By virtue of the crop’s export viability and driven by changes in land tenure brought about by the reform, investors and resettled farmers are entering into a new generation of land leases and joint-venture agreements. To varying degrees, these agreements are attempts by resettled farmers to mob…
Revisiting the Trimodal Agrarian Structure as a Social Differentiation Analysis Framework in Zimbabwe
The study of social differentiation in the countryside is often dominated by the deployment of classical analytical frameworks. This article quantitatively explores social differentiation at the sub-national level (Chiredzi and Zvimba districts in Zimbabwe), through the use of the trimodal agrarian structure (TMAS) framework. It addresses the question of whether variables outlined in TMAS (land sizes, labor, and credit) stimulate social different…
Political Economy of Command Agriculture in Zimbabwe
After the withdrawal of agrarian capital from financing agriculture in the context of a backlash following the implementation radical land redistribution and tenure reforms since 2000, the fiscally constrained Zimbabwean state assumed an enlarged role in funding production, especially of food grains. Various input subsidy programs were initiated by state and donor agencies to plug the challenges faced by farmers in accessing expensive agricultura…
Sugar production dynamics in Zimbabwe
This article examines the nature of contractual relations between sugar outgrowers (contract farmers) and Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ). Drawing from a research study conducted at Hippo Valley Estate, using a mixed-methods approach, findings reveal asymmetrical power relations in favour of THZ as reflected by its domination in price determination, monopsony control and risk sharing. Despite radicalisation and attempts by the state to curb the pow…
Tobacco contract farming in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme resulted in a massive growth of the country's tobacco sector. Some authors have labelled this, the ‘tobacco boom’. The effects of this growth are variegated across space and time. This study explores the growth of tobacco contract farming in Goromonzi and Zvimba districts and the resultant effects on land use patterns, accumulation, power dynamics and livelihood outcomes. In illuminating on contract far…
Plants will miss your Shade / Huge Loss
Revisiting the Trimodal Agrarian Structure as a Social Differentiation Analysis Framework in Zimbabwe
The study of social differentiation in the countryside is often dominated by the deployment of classical analytical frameworks. This article quantitatively explores social differentiation at the sub-national level (Chiredzi and Zvimba districts in Zimbabwe), through the use of the trimodal agrarian structure (TMAS) framework. It addresses the question of whether variables outlined in TMAS (land sizes, labor, and credit) stimulate social different…
The impact of migratory practices on food security and asset accumulation in Zimbabwe
Debates about the capacity of migratory remittances to enhance food security abound. This article examines the impact of remittances in shaping agricultural production and asset accumulation patterns in Zimbabwe. Using empirical evidence drawn from a sample of 1,090 households and anchored in a political economy conceptual framework, we posit that remittances do not automatically stimulate food security and asset accumulation. Massive deteriorati…
The Land Belongs to Us
Zimbabwe's radical Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), implemented in 2000, diversified the agrarian structure by replacing a few large commercial farms with many smaller-scale farms. In understanding how the allocations evolved, studies have emphasized the effects of class, political party affiliation, gender, citizenship, and generation. However, the influence of ethno-regionalism or ethnicity on land access has been understudied. This ar…
Joint Ventures and Land Rentals in Tobacco
Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform programme has led to the adoption of new patterns of land use by its beneficiaries. Tobacco farming is a case in point. By virtue of the crop’s export viability and driven by changes in land tenure brought about by the reform, investors and resettled farmers are entering into a new generation of land leases and joint-venture agreements. To varying degrees, these agreements are attempts by resettled farmers to mob…
Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture
This article examines the impacts of Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture (CA) program, a state-driven cereal production model implemented since 2016. In the context of the neglect of cereal crops by African states generally under the accumulation strategies of international and domestic capital, and in the face of persisting neoliberal strategies led by international agencies such as the World Bank, the Zimbabwe experience continues to provide insight…
Chinese Investment in Africa
Diversification of sugar production in Zimbabwe
This article analyses the implications of the diversification of the sugar production occasioned by the land redistribution implemented in Zimbabwe since 2000 on wealth accumulation by sugar outgrowers. While the extensive land reforms altered the national agrarian structure it also widened participation in sugar production as more than 1,000 black land recipients were integrated as outgrowers of transnational capital. This study shows that wealt…
Challenging ‘conventional agriculture’
This article analyses the emergence and evolution of the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers’ Forum (ZIMSOFF) as a social movement organisation, focusing on factors which have enabled and hindered ZIMSOFF to meaningfully influence the trajectory of agrarian change in Zimbabwe. While in its early stages ZIMSOFF was heavily shaped by a non-governmental organisation (NGO), it later embarked on a path towards greater autonomy which it still retains,…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (10 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Agrarian society (4 works)