Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land * Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform

There is no question that the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), which began in 2000, has transformed the agrarian structure of Zimbabwe radically. The question, or sets of questions, at the centre of this debate now focus on how the FTLRP has played out, and how it continues to unfold, at the local level. These two relatively new additions to the literature offer the reader a chance to further explore this set of hotly debated issues. Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land aims to uncover ‘the reality on the ground in 2012' (p. 13), and is ‘about the new farmers ... about their successes and failures’ (pp. 14–15). The first five chapters look at colonialism and the first two decades of independence; chapters 6 to 9 cover the FTLRP and the situation in 2012; and the remaining chapters discuss unresolved issues, including women's land rights (Chapter 10), environmental concerns (Chapter...

Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Environmental planning · Geography · Independence (probability theory) · Land reform · Land registration · Land rights · Land tenure · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Land Rights and Reforms · Law