Toendepi Shonhe
Biographic Data
| ID | 911645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toendepi Shonhe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toendepi |
| FAMILY NAME | Shonhe |
| SIGNATURE | SHONHE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1733-6315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts on sub-Saharan Africa: Supply chain disruption propagation and resilience strategies
Conflict and supply chain disruption are subjects for exploration to inform appropriate responses to increasingly frequent and severe disruptive conflicts. This study explores the impact of conflict and supply chain disruption on Africa. While disputes can cause notable supply chain disruptions, little research exists on the impact this has on Africa. While extensive research has been dedicated to global supply chain disruptions, there is a signi…
Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Smallholder agricultural commercialization is a central objective across Africa, one linked to poverty reduction, sectoral transformation and increasingly, climate resilience and adaptation. There is much attention given to the extent to which agricultural commercialization serves to reduce poverty, but less to the commercialization pathways that lead towards or away from that outcome. There are, likewise, many studies that project hugely adverse…
Agricultural commercialisation and changing labour regimes in Zimbabwe
This paper explores the emerging labour regimes and the consequences for agricultural commercialisation across multiple land-use types in post land reform Zimbabwe. The livelihoods of farmworkers, including those still resident in former labour compounds, are explored. The paper examines patterns of employment, land access, crop farming, asset ownership and off-farm activities, highlighting the diversification of livelihoods. The old pattern of w…
South-South Cooperation in Agriculture: Impacts of Brazil's More Food International Program on Post-Land Reform Social Organizations in Zimbabwe
South-South Cooperation has received significant attention. This article assesses the implications of Brazil's More Food International on farm-level social organizations in Goromonzi and Mvurwi districts in Zimbabwe. Data was collected using mainly focus group discussions, key-informant interviews, and the application of a questionnaire among 410 farming households. Differentiated implications and outcomes were observed between the two districts.…
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation
Tobacco has been central to the agrarian economy of Zimbabwe since the early 1900s, when it became the backbone of the new settler economy following colonisation. Since the land reform of 2000, tobacco has taken on a new impetus, with production now often exceeding that generated by white commercial farming in the 1990s. Today, tobacco is being produced predominantly by smallholders, with those on resettlement land being especially important. Tob…
The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: Tractors, Accumulation and Agrarian Change
This article explores whether mechanisation affects patterns of accumulation and differentiation in Zimbabwe's post land reform where policy consistently disadvantages smallholders. Is the latest mechanisation wave any different? The article considers dynamics of tractor access and accumulation trajectories across and within land use types in Mvurwi area. Larger, richer and well-connected farmers draw on patronage networks to access tractors and …
Private and state‐led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentiation and rural politics
Contract farming schemes often amplify existing patterns of socio‐economic differentiation. In Zimbabwe, processes of differentiation were underway before the current expansion of contract farming and they have deepened through the Fast Track Land Reform process. This article examines how pre‐existing dynamics of differentiation shape the forms of contract farming adopted, as well as which groups of farmers gain access and on what terms. Social d…
Zimbabwe’s Emerging Farmer Classification model: A ‘new’ countryside
The article presents an Emerging Farmer Classification model and its typologies, revealing the dominance of medium-scale farmers, consisting of smallholder and medium-sized farms, in Hwedza district. The article argues that the Emerging Farmer Classification reflects ongoing reconfiguration in Hwedza district and is a result of the changing workings of capital after the Fast Track Land Reform era. The analysis is based on a case study involving 2…
Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: The experience of A2 resettlement farms
The emergence of medium-scale farms is having important consequences for agricultural commercialisation across Africa. This article examines the role of medium-scale A2 farms allocated following Zimbabwe's land reform after 2000. While the existing literature focuses on changing farm size distributions, this article investigates processes of social differentiation across medium-scale farms, based on qualitative-quantitative studies in two contras…
The changing agrarian economy in Zimbabwe, 15 years after the Fast Track Land Reform programme
The reconfigured agrarian structure imposed new production and commoditisation patterns across the settlement types in Zimbabwe. From 2000, new markets were established, with differentiated effects on capital accumulation for different sets of farmers. After the Fast Track Land Reform programme, the impact of the economy-wide challenges, climate change, capital and global geo-politics on the agrarian economy remain relatively unexplored. Using a …
The changing agrarian economy in Zimbabwe, 15 years after the Fast Track Land Reform programme
The reconfigured agrarian structure imposed new production and commoditisation patterns across the settlement types in Zimbabwe. From 2000, new markets were established, with differentiated effects on capital accumulation for different sets of farmers. After the Fast Track Land Reform programme, the impact of the economy-wide challenges, climate change, capital and global geo-politics on the agrarian economy remain relatively unexplored. Using a …
Agricultural commercialisation and changing labour regimes in Zimbabwe
This paper explores the emerging labour regimes and the consequences for agricultural commercialisation across multiple land-use types in post land reform Zimbabwe. The livelihoods of farmworkers, including those still resident in former labour compounds, are explored. The paper examines patterns of employment, land access, crop farming, asset ownership and off-farm activities, highlighting the diversification of livelihoods. The old pattern of w…
The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: Tractors, Accumulation and Agrarian Change
This article explores whether mechanisation affects patterns of accumulation and differentiation in Zimbabwe's post land reform where policy consistently disadvantages smallholders. Is the latest mechanisation wave any different? The article considers dynamics of tractor access and accumulation trajectories across and within land use types in Mvurwi area. Larger, richer and well-connected farmers draw on patronage networks to access tractors and …
Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: The experience of A2 resettlement farms
The emergence of medium-scale farms is having important consequences for agricultural commercialisation across Africa. This article examines the role of medium-scale A2 farms allocated following Zimbabwe's land reform after 2000. While the existing literature focuses on changing farm size distributions, this article investigates processes of social differentiation across medium-scale farms, based on qualitative-quantitative studies in two contras…
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation
Tobacco has been central to the agrarian economy of Zimbabwe since the early 1900s, when it became the backbone of the new settler economy following colonisation. Since the land reform of 2000, tobacco has taken on a new impetus, with production now often exceeding that generated by white commercial farming in the 1990s. Today, tobacco is being produced predominantly by smallholders, with those on resettlement land being especially important. Tob…
Zimbabwe’s Emerging Farmer Classification model: A ‘new’ countryside
The article presents an Emerging Farmer Classification model and its typologies, revealing the dominance of medium-scale farmers, consisting of smallholder and medium-sized farms, in Hwedza district. The article argues that the Emerging Farmer Classification reflects ongoing reconfiguration in Hwedza district and is a result of the changing workings of capital after the Fast Track Land Reform era. The analysis is based on a case study involving 2…
The changing agrarian economy in Zimbabwe, 15 years after the Fast Track Land Reform programme
The reconfigured agrarian structure imposed new production and commoditisation patterns across the settlement types in Zimbabwe. From 2000, new markets were established, with differentiated effects on capital accumulation for different sets of farmers. After the Fast Track Land Reform programme, the impact of the economy-wide challenges, climate change, capital and global geo-politics on the agrarian economy remain relatively unexplored. Using a …
Zimbabwe’s Emerging Farmer Classification model: A ‘new’ countryside
The article presents an Emerging Farmer Classification model and its typologies, revealing the dominance of medium-scale farmers, consisting of smallholder and medium-sized farms, in Hwedza district. The article argues that the Emerging Farmer Classification reflects ongoing reconfiguration in Hwedza district and is a result of the changing workings of capital after the Fast Track Land Reform era. The analysis is based on a case study involving 2…
Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: The experience of A2 resettlement farms
The emergence of medium-scale farms is having important consequences for agricultural commercialisation across Africa. This article examines the role of medium-scale A2 farms allocated following Zimbabwe's land reform after 2000. While the existing literature focuses on changing farm size distributions, this article investigates processes of social differentiation across medium-scale farms, based on qualitative-quantitative studies in two contras…
Private and state‐led contract farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, social differentiation and rural politics
Contract farming schemes often amplify existing patterns of socio‐economic differentiation. In Zimbabwe, processes of differentiation were underway before the current expansion of contract farming and they have deepened through the Fast Track Land Reform process. This article examines how pre‐existing dynamics of differentiation shape the forms of contract farming adopted, as well as which groups of farmers gain access and on what terms. Social d…
Agricultural commercialisation and changing labour regimes in Zimbabwe
This paper explores the emerging labour regimes and the consequences for agricultural commercialisation across multiple land-use types in post land reform Zimbabwe. The livelihoods of farmworkers, including those still resident in former labour compounds, are explored. The paper examines patterns of employment, land access, crop farming, asset ownership and off-farm activities, highlighting the diversification of livelihoods. The old pattern of w…
South-South Cooperation in Agriculture: Impacts of Brazil's More Food International Program on Post-Land Reform Social Organizations in Zimbabwe
South-South Cooperation has received significant attention. This article assesses the implications of Brazil's More Food International on farm-level social organizations in Goromonzi and Mvurwi districts in Zimbabwe. Data was collected using mainly focus group discussions, key-informant interviews, and the application of a questionnaire among 410 farming households. Differentiated implications and outcomes were observed between the two districts.…
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation
Tobacco has been central to the agrarian economy of Zimbabwe since the early 1900s, when it became the backbone of the new settler economy following colonisation. Since the land reform of 2000, tobacco has taken on a new impetus, with production now often exceeding that generated by white commercial farming in the 1990s. Today, tobacco is being produced predominantly by smallholders, with those on resettlement land being especially important. Tob…
The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: Tractors, Accumulation and Agrarian Change
This article explores whether mechanisation affects patterns of accumulation and differentiation in Zimbabwe's post land reform where policy consistently disadvantages smallholders. Is the latest mechanisation wave any different? The article considers dynamics of tractor access and accumulation trajectories across and within land use types in Mvurwi area. Larger, richer and well-connected farmers draw on patronage networks to access tractors and …
Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Smallholder agricultural commercialization is a central objective across Africa, one linked to poverty reduction, sectoral transformation and increasingly, climate resilience and adaptation. There is much attention given to the extent to which agricultural commercialization serves to reduce poverty, but less to the commercialization pathways that lead towards or away from that outcome. There are, likewise, many studies that project hugely adverse…
Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts on sub-Saharan Africa: Supply chain disruption propagation and resilience strategies
Conflict and supply chain disruption are subjects for exploration to inform appropriate responses to increasingly frequent and severe disruptive conflicts. This study explores the impact of conflict and supply chain disruption on Africa. While disputes can cause notable supply chain disruptions, little research exists on the impact this has on Africa. While extensive research has been dedicated to global supply chain disruptions, there is a signi…
Economics (10 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Agricultural economics (5 works) · Land reform (5 works)