Sugar production dynamics in Zimbabwe
An analysis of contract farming at Hippo Valley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11905397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Freedom Mazwi (0000-0001-7100-1287, Rhodes University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 166 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056244.2020.1832022 |
| OpenAlex | W3099432026 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 38 |
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 powers of international finance, the article argues that monopoly capital continues to wield significant control in Zimbabwe, leading to growing farmer indebtedness. Thus, the state–capital alliance presents a stumbling block for accumulation by sugar outgrowers
Agriculture · Alliance · Business · Capital (architecture · Control (management · Economics · Estate · Labour economics · Management · Market economy · Monopoly · Monopsony · Political science · Power (physics · Production (economics · Relations of production · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Finance
Decades of Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
Afrocentric leadership reflections on Sadducees, Pharisees, and Essenes in the Second Temple Era
Twenty‐five years of Living Under Contract
Changing food waste regimes in Africa’s transition to export-oriented production
Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform at 20
Diversification of sugar production in Zimbabwe
The Land Belongs to Us
Revisiting the Trimodal Agrarian Structure as a Social Differentiation Analysis Framework in Zimbabwe
Living under contract
Reclaiming the Land
Linking agribusiness and small-scale farmers in developing countries
Contract farming and the peasantry
Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe
The fast-track land reform and agrarian change in Zimbabwe
Strategic privatisation
Tobacco contract farming in Zimbabwe
Class dynamics in contract farming
Gender and contract farming
Contemporary Imperialism
Contests and struggle
Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
Value-chain Agriculture and Debt Relations
Don't stop the mill
Late Neo-colonialism
Global Agricultural Value Systems and the South
Neoliberalism and Fascism
Global Value Chains and Agribusiness in Africa
The Political Economy of Sugar in Southern Africa - Introduction
The Green Belt Initiative, Politics and Sugar Production in Malawi
Consuming Bodies
Social Differentiation and the Politics of Land
The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era
Weaving cotton-led development? Liberalization, cotton producer organizations, and uneven development in Burkina Faso
Tobacco, contract farming, and agrarian change in Zimbabwe
Contract Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa
Global Food Chains, African Smallholders and World Bank Governance
Representing reciprocity, reproducing domination
Extreme but not exceptional
Who gains from contract farming? Dependencies, power relations, and institutional change
The chain of exploitation
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |