Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform

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Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform

Author(s): Prosper B. Matondi (Author)

  • Publisher: Zed Books
  • Publication Date: 8 Nov. 2012
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 304 pages
  • ISBN-10: 178032149X
  • ISBN-13: 9781780321493

Book Description

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets and processes. The reality, however, is altogether more complex.

Providing new and much-needed empirical research, this in-depth book examines how processes such as land acquisition, allocation, transitional production outcomes, social life, gender and tenure, have influenced and been influenced by the forces driving the programme. It also explores the ways in which the land reform programme has created a new agrarian structure based on small- to medium-scale farmers. In attempting to resolve the problematic issues the reforms have raised, the author argues that it is this new agrarian formation which provides the greatest scope for improving Zimbabwe’s agriculture and development.

Based on a broader geographical scope than any previous study carried out on the subject, this is a landmark work on a subject of considerable controversy.

Editorial Reviews

Review

We still do not know fully what happened after paramilitary groups seized Zimbabwe’s white-owned farms and transferred them to others. Read this book for its analysis of those varied outcomes. Tabulating his findings with admirable clarity, Matondi helps fill a wide gap in the empirical and applied scholarship of rural Zimbabwe. –David McDermott Hughes, author of Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging

The study addresses an extraordinarily rich array of issues with economy, nuance and insight. In its attention to the role of the civil servants and in its disaggregation of multiple actors from the centre to the grassroots, it confronts the important question of whether the beneficiaries of land were predominantly political cronies. This is an exceptionally useful and intelligent response to an exceptionally chaotic and complex moment of history. –Diana Jeater, professor of African history, University of the West of England, Bristol

A hot must-read for an informed discussion on the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe. The author tackles sensitive issues in a unique yet educative manner, balancing benefits and challenges of the land reform. The book reveals how the process remains the most empowering for Zimbabweans. –Dr Neddy Matshalaga, chairperson of Ruzivo Trust

About the Author

Prosper B. Matondi is the executive director of the Ruzivo Trust, a not-for-profit organization based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has more than 18 years of experience researching on land, natural resources management, environmental policy and planning in Zimbabwe, within the southern African region and internationally. He is the co-editor, along with Kjell Havnevik and Atakilte Beyene, of Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa (Zed 2011).

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Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform

Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform

Hardcover: 306 pages

Publisher: Zed Books (November 08 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 178032149X

ISBN-13: 9781780321493

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