Zimbabwe's Land Reform
Myths and realities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6028832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Buhle Mpofu (0000-0002-6833-0810, University of Pretoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 441 |
| Pages | 673-675 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and Realities, Ian Scoones, 2010 |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/afraf/adr056 |
| OpenAlex | W2312483878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
It required the eloquence and boldness of Ian Scoones et al. to produce this impressive empirical study on the impact of Zimbabwe's controversial Fast Track Land Programme. The book addresses one province, Masvingo, a relatively dry natural farming region without uniform agricultural potential and supposedly of limited interest to political elites. The book explores ‘what happened to different people's livelihoods once they acquired the land’ (p. 6), through challenging four ‘myths’: (1) that the reform has been a total failure; (2) it has largely benefited political cronies; (3) there is no investment in the resettlement areas; and (4) that the rural economy has collapsed and agriculture is in complete ruins creating chronic food insecurity (p. 8). While the controversial land invasions were not a complete economic disaster, the authors (who comprise an agricultural ecologist, an urban and rural planner, an agricultural economist, an agricultural extension officer who also doubles as a resettlement farmer, an A2 sugar cane farmer and a communal farmer who is also a beneficiary of a resettlement plot) are careful not to characterize it as a success, either.
Agricultural land · Agriculture · Beneficiary · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Land grabbing · Land reform · Livelihood · Political economy · Political science · Politics · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
Agroecología Histórica Maya en Las Tierras Bajas De México
Centring ordinary people
New land, old claims and the politics of belonging during a changing agrarian situation in central Zimbabwe
Analysis of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) contribution to access to natural, financial and physical capital in Norton, Zimbabwe
The Land Belongs to Us
Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies (Zids)
Changing Forms of Wage Labour in Zimbabwe's New Agrarian Structure
Prospects for Equitable Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Livelihoods, Land and Political Economy
(Un)packaging the “sweetness” in the naming of farms by resettled Black sugarcane farmers in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
In the shadows of the third Chimurenga
Rural Social Movements and Agroecology
The social and cultural dynamics of Zimbabwe’s land reform programme on the ‘new generation’ of farmers
Possibilities and Constraints of Market-Led Land Reforms in Southern Africa
Bernstein's Puzzle
Organization and (De)mobilization of Farmworkers in Zimbabwe
Land, Livelihoods, and the Decline of Work
Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity and Rural Livelihoods
Decades of Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
The Political Economy of Transformation in Zimbabwe
Codesria Bulletin, Nos 3 & 4, 2015
Political ecology of agrarian transformation
From ‘hydrology of hope’ to ‘hydrology of despair’
Labor Relations in Zimbabwe from 1900 to 2000
Commons, co-ops, and corporations
Women's struggles to access and control land and livelihoods after fast track land reform in Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe
Who was allocated Fast Track land, and what did they do with it? Selection of A2 farmers in Goromonzi District, Zimbabwe and its impacts on agricultural production
Restructuring of agrarian labour relations after Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Re-thinking agrarian reform, land and territory in La Via Campesina
Global resource grabs, agribusiness concentration and the smallholder
Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe
Conciliatory whiteness
Progress, power, and violent accumulation in Zimbabwe
Two perspectives on Zimbabwe's National Democratic Revolution
Democratisation and control
Mining with a ‘Vuvuzela’
From an Industrial Powerhouse to a Nation of Vendors
Transgressing the norm
Labour after Land Reform
The youth after land reform in Zimbabwe
Mugabe’s shadow
The contribution of Archie Mafeje to the debate on land reform in Africa
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |