Walter Chambati
Biographic Data
| ID | 210978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Chambati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Chambati |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBATI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7157-1570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
The Reformed Agrarian Structure and Changing Dynamics of Rural Labour Migration in Zimbabwe
This article examines the changing dynamics of rural labour migration in Zimbabwe following the radical land redistribution since 2000 through the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). Since the colonial period, dispossessed peasants with inadequate land access were forced to offer cheap migrant wage labour for large-scale capitalist farms (LSCFs) and beyond. Empirical evidence from Goromonzi and Kwekwe districts demonstrates that while there…
Introduction
Background African countries face multiple developmental, economic, social and industrial transformation hurdles, especially in the era of sustainable development and sensitivity to environmental damage. As late-comer industrialisers, there is some catching up to do, but they need to navigate complex, international, legal and institutional agreements that early industrialisers did not face. Given the environmental concerns, it is not surprising t…
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…
Luta por soberania epistêmica no Sul
A presente homenagem a Sam Moyo traz à tona a sua trajetória na tradição Pan-Africanista de economia política e na construção de uma nova dinâmica intelectual autônoma entre África, Ásia, América Latina e Caribe. Nascido no Zimbábue sob o regime colonial rodesiano, iniciou os seus estudos na África do Oeste nos anos 1970, onde obteve a sua duradoura orientação epistemológica pautada na libertação nacional. Ali se consolidava à época um pensamento…
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…
Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe's New Agrarian Structure
This essay examines the changing nature of farm wage labour in the context of the extensive redistributive land reform since 2000. Using field research from two districts in Zimbabwe with contrasting agro-ecology and socio-economic patterns, it shows that agrarian wage labour is not the preserve of large-scale capitalist farms (LSCFs), which it is usually associated with. The new agrarian structure dominated by the peasantry not only employs an e…
Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
We are grateful for the assistance that many people afforded us during this book project. Invaluable comments were received from various Zimbabwean researchers and activists at a workshop convened by the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) in December 2009 in Harare. We received extensive feedback on some chapters from participants in the annual Agrarian Studies Summer School between 2009 and 2012 in Harare, Dar es Salaam and Grahamstow…
Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
The Political Economy of Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Redistributive Land Reform
This article examines the reconfiguration of agrarian labour relations in Zimbabwe following extensive land redistribution since 2000. Based on field research, it shows that the new forms of labour utilization that have emerged are structured around new land ownership and material conditions, within a more diversified agrarian economy. The new agrarian structure is characterized by reduced supplies of wage labour, as more of the previously land-s…
Restructuring of agrarian labour relations after Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
The fast track land redistribution programme generated new agrarian labour relations altering the tying of labour on the large farms to tenancy, supplemented by casual labour from the communal areas. Job losses and displacement occurred, but this is not the whole story as new and diverse sources of rural employment have emerged, including high levels of self-employment on small farms (A1) supplemented by casual employment. Large farms dependent o…
Restructuring of agrarian labour relations after Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
The fast track land redistribution programme generated new agrarian labour relations altering the tying of labour on the large farms to tenancy, supplemented by casual labour from the communal areas. Job losses and displacement occurred, but this is not the whole story as new and diverse sources of rural employment have emerged, including high levels of self-employment on small farms (A1) supplemented by casual employment. Large farms dependent o…
Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe's New Agrarian Structure
This essay examines the changing nature of farm wage labour in the context of the extensive redistributive land reform since 2000. Using field research from two districts in Zimbabwe with contrasting agro-ecology and socio-economic patterns, it shows that agrarian wage labour is not the preserve of large-scale capitalist farms (LSCFs), which it is usually associated with. The new agrarian structure dominated by the peasantry not only employs an e…
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…
The Political Economy of Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Redistributive Land Reform
This article examines the reconfiguration of agrarian labour relations in Zimbabwe following extensive land redistribution since 2000. Based on field research, it shows that the new forms of labour utilization that have emerged are structured around new land ownership and material conditions, within a more diversified agrarian economy. The new agrarian structure is characterized by reduced supplies of wage labour, as more of the previously land-s…
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 Reformed Agrarian Structure and Changing Dynamics of Rural Labour Migration in Zimbabwe
This article examines the changing dynamics of rural labour migration in Zimbabwe following the radical land redistribution since 2000 through the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). Since the colonial period, dispossessed peasants with inadequate land access were forced to offer cheap migrant wage labour for large-scale capitalist farms (LSCFs) and beyond. Empirical evidence from Goromonzi and Kwekwe districts demonstrates that while there…
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…
Restructuring of agrarian labour relations after Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
The fast track land redistribution programme generated new agrarian labour relations altering the tying of labour on the large farms to tenancy, supplemented by casual labour from the communal areas. Job losses and displacement occurred, but this is not the whole story as new and diverse sources of rural employment have emerged, including high levels of self-employment on small farms (A1) supplemented by casual employment. Large farms dependent o…
Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
We are grateful for the assistance that many people afforded us during this book project. Invaluable comments were received from various Zimbabwean researchers and activists at a workshop convened by the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) in December 2009 in Harare. We received extensive feedback on some chapters from participants in the annual Agrarian Studies Summer School between 2009 and 2012 in Harare, Dar es Salaam and Grahamstow…
Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
The Political Economy of Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Redistributive Land Reform
This article examines the reconfiguration of agrarian labour relations in Zimbabwe following extensive land redistribution since 2000. Based on field research, it shows that the new forms of labour utilization that have emerged are structured around new land ownership and material conditions, within a more diversified agrarian economy. The new agrarian structure is characterized by reduced supplies of wage labour, as more of the previously land-s…
Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe's New Agrarian Structure
This essay examines the changing nature of farm wage labour in the context of the extensive redistributive land reform since 2000. Using field research from two districts in Zimbabwe with contrasting agro-ecology and socio-economic patterns, it shows that agrarian wage labour is not the preserve of large-scale capitalist farms (LSCFs), which it is usually associated with. The new agrarian structure dominated by the peasantry not only employs an e…
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…
Luta por soberania epistêmica no Sul
A presente homenagem a Sam Moyo traz à tona a sua trajetória na tradição Pan-Africanista de economia política e na construção de uma nova dinâmica intelectual autônoma entre África, Ásia, América Latina e Caribe. Nascido no Zimbábue sob o regime colonial rodesiano, iniciou os seus estudos na África do Oeste nos anos 1970, onde obteve a sua duradoura orientação epistemológica pautada na libertação nacional. Ali se consolidava à época um pensamento…
The Reformed Agrarian Structure and Changing Dynamics of Rural Labour Migration in Zimbabwe
This article examines the changing dynamics of rural labour migration in Zimbabwe following the radical land redistribution since 2000 through the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). Since the colonial period, dispossessed peasants with inadequate land access were forced to offer cheap migrant wage labour for large-scale capitalist farms (LSCFs) and beyond. Empirical evidence from Goromonzi and Kwekwe districts demonstrates that while there…
Introduction
Background African countries face multiple developmental, economic, social and industrial transformation hurdles, especially in the era of sustainable development and sensitivity to environmental damage. As late-comer industrialisers, there is some catching up to do, but they need to navigate complex, international, legal and institutional agreements that early industrialisers did not face. Given the environmental concerns, it is not surprising t…
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…
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 (11 works) · Agriculture (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (9 works) · Agrarian society (8 works) · Land reform (6 works) · Agrarian reform (5 works)